Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.