True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.