It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.