The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
Seldom
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.