[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?
When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
That there is a secret itself is a secret.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.