[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up" - Will
I have begun in old age to understand. . . that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.