Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. — Charles Dickens

The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was perhaps the more delightful on that account, as nobody’s previous information could afford the remotest glimmering of what would ever come of it.

Formalities, formalities, must not be neglected in civilized society.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.