In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

Experience tells me that people’s hearts are seldom changed if they are not changed when young. Seldom indeed are men converted when they are old. Habits have deep roots. Once sin is allowed to settle in your heart, it will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions […] or juicy gossip.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.

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

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.