The vanity of loving fine clothes and new 25 fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be. Sir Matthew Hale.
The veneration we have for many things entirely proceeds from their being carefully concealed. Goldsmith.
The very head and front of my offending / Hath this extent, no more. Othello, i. 3.
The very joy of a true man's heart is to admire, when he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Carlyle.
The very meanest things are made supreme / With innate ecstasy. Blanchard.
The very nature of the dilettanti is that they 30 have no idea of the difficulties which lie in a subject, and always wish to undertake something for which they have no capacity. Goethe.
The very pain of loving is all other joys before. Dr. Walter Smith.
The very society of joy redoubles it, so that, whilst it lights upon my friend, it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. South.
The vessel that will not obey her helm will have to obey the rocks. Breton and Cornish Pr.
The vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. Emerson.