After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.