Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! H. Ballou.
Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher. Buckle.
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover 15 as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. Mme. Swetchine.
Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education. Ruskin.
Real worth floats not with people's fancies, no more than a rock in the sea rises and falls with the tide. Fuller.
Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry. Chamfort.
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation of reality and history that poetry consists. Carlyle.
Reality is, no doubt, greater and more vital 20 to know, in so real a world and life, than any fiction; and the thoughts of God, which the facts are, are infinitely more precious than the fancies of men about them, or even according to them; yet is man's power of fancying, or fantasying, in harmony with the fact, the measure of his knowledge of it and vital relationship to it, and the divinely appointed means withal whereby the fact itself is brought home to our affections. Ed.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of dreams. Goethe.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washington.