Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced al…

That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with 'in' and emphasize it. Get me a jury …

The words of the world want to make sentences.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (p. 25)