Scott

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”
― Melville Herman

“Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch," he said. "Well, I can stop that." He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children.”
― L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

“Morning to ye! Morning to ye!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale