When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is which tastes the sting of death. Duchesse de Praslin.
When maidens sue, / Men give like gods. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.
When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will (as at the creation) be again dumb. Hawthorne.
When man seized the loadstone of science, 20 the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. W. R. Alger.
When matters are desperate, we must put on a desperate face. Burns.
When men add a new wing to their house they do not call the action virtue, but if they give to a fellow-creature for their own gratification, they demand of God a good mark for it. J. M. Barrie.
When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship. Lew Wallace.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Disraeli.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, 25 they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Pope.
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden.