Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than to study household good, / And good works in her husband to promote. Milton.
Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavour. Jean Paul.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Thoreau.
Nothing marks the character of a young man 15 more than a failure. Anon.
Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind than to find anomalies in conduct or character. Alex. Whitelaw.
Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has in it something of "infinite sadness." Carlyle.
Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. Carlyle.
Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. Goethe.
Nothing on earth is without significance, but 20 the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. Schiller.
Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship. Carlyle.