We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.
Hindered characters seldom have mothers in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.
Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.