There is nothing more perennial in us than habit and imitation. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning. Carlyle.
There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them. Goethe.
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance. J. G. Holland.
There is nothing more terrible to a guilty heart than the eye of a respected friend. Sir P. Sidney.
There is nothing new under the sun. Bible. 40
There is nothing of which men are so fond and so careless as life. La Bruyère.
There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity. Melanchthon.
There is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form, and nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form. Quoted by Emerson.
There is nothing on earth without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives us, and love we feel, help us to overcome obstruction, to pave our way, and to raise ourselves out of the narrow circle in which others sorrowfully torture themselves. Goethe.
There is nothing really more monstrous in any 45 recorded savagery or absurdity of mankind than that governments should be able to get money for any folly they choose to commit, by selling to capitalists the right of taxing future generations to the end of time. Ruskin.