There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.