“Has not heaven an ear? Is all the lightning wasted?”
“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
“No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”
“And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted”