Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable to the understanding as a lie. Locke.
Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas. Sterne.
Nothing is so conceivable (begreiflich) to the child, nothing seems to be so natural to him, as the marvellous or supernatural. Zachariä.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend. 45 La Fontaine.
Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance. Thoreau.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labour alone. Though labour always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labour alone will do little. Haydon.
Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel. Landor.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Swift.
Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening, 50 as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us. Dean Stanley.
Nothing is so new as what has been long forgotten. Ger. Pr.