The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
