The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.