To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands it also seldom works properly.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.

A conversation is a dialogue not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge or determine right.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.