If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?
“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.