The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Chastity. . . has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you. Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you. You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness. Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
