Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished.

Injustice poverty slavery ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals individual and collective a vast variety of them seldom predictable at times incompatible.

Men seldom or rather never for a length of time and deliberately rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

For it is mutual trust even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is or very soon will be void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

The cautious seldom err.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands it also seldom works properly.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.

A conversation is a dialogue not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.