I stumbled upon a helpful feature of WordPress’s Bookmarklet feature.    By highlighting text in an article for clicking “Press It”, the Bookmarklet automatically copy and pastes the highlighted text from the previous page into your blogging post.   For example, see the text below in italics:

 Press It « WordPress Codex
WordPress makes it easy to quickly add links and information to your site through the use of a bookmarklet called Press It. A bookmarklet looks like a link in your Favorites, Bookmarks, or Links list but it is much more powerful.

This text was automatically  generated when I started the post by pressing it from this page:

If you are not familiar with the Bookmarklet feature, you can click on the image above to learn more.