“Short or long to Goblin City?The straight way's shortBut the long way's pretty...”
“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”
“By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?”
“The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")”
“You want to go back to my house the long way?" he asked."Or the shortcut? You have to be cold-""Long way," I replied. "The long way, for sure.”