Your reader is at least as bright as you are

So quick bright things come to confusion.

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

He was very bright and talented. What he did was learn his craft well. As he said, you can't be stupid and get eight gold records in the music market. ... He studied what he needed to do as a legislator. But he also had wonderful timing, and he was just naturally a humorous person, and when you combine that and the timing he learned from the entertainment industry, he was just a knockout.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time

At least we didn't have the tidal surge we expected,