Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. Jean Paul.
Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Universal suffrage I will consult about the quality of New Orleans pork or the coarser kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character of men, I will if possible ask it no question. Carlyle.
Universus mundus exercet histrioniam—All the world practises the player's art.
Unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, 40 which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. Jeremy Taylor.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness, that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Bentham.
Unkindness destroys love. Pr.
Unkindness has no remedy at law; let its avoidance be with you a point of honour. Hosea Ballou.
Unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. Byron.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect 45 of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. Sir P. Sidney.