Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering. " Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
