A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate. . .
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable. . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.