Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments 10 of civility. Cervantes.
Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits like poverty and toil and suffering. It is the furnace heat that brings out the characters, the pressure that makes the strata perfect. John Burroughs.
Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far and relaxed too much. Bacon.
Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into time, and grows through all eternity. Carlyle.
Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband. Joubert.
Nothing done by man in the past has any 15 deeper sense than what he is doing now. Emerson.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. Bp. Hall.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. Hume.
Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot bear a rival in the throng. Young.