There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. Cic.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. Bovee.
There are fewer students of man than of geometry. Pascal.
There are forty men of wit for one of sense; 5 and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. (?)
There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. Fuller.
There are in man, in the beginning / And at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves—childhood and age. Jean Paul.
There are in the history of a man only three epochs, his birth, his life, and his death; he is not conscious of being born; he submits to die; and he forgets to live. La Bruyère.
There are in this day, as in all days, around and in every man, voices from the gods, imperative to all, if obeyed by even none, which say audibly: Arise, thou son of Adam, son of Time, make this thing more divine, and that thing, and thyself of all things, and work, and sleep not; for the Night cometh wherein no man can work. Carlyle.
There are in this loud stunning tide / Of 10 human care and crime, / With whom the melodies abide / Of th' everlasting chime; / Who carry music in their heart, / Through dusty lane and wrangling mart, / Plying their daily task with busier feet, / Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat. Keble.
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul, to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God. Chapin.