He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.