The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.
The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. Judge Haliburton.
The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. Grillparzer.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble 35 the gods. Socrates.
The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. Thoreau.
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. Emerson.
The finding of your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in the world. Carlyle.
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. Ruskin.
The finest composition of human nature, as 40 well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. Fielding.
The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words. George Eliot.