A good friend is my nearest relation. [ Proverb ]
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood. [ H. Ballou ]
Twilight (of dawn) is the lot of man in every relation. [ Feuchtersleben ]
There is no better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. [ Franklin ]
Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action. [ Winckelmann ]
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable. [ H. Ballon ]
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. [ Bovee ]
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. [ Dewey ]
There is a settled friendship, nay, a near relation and similitude, between God and good men. [ Seneca ]
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The direct relation of music is not to ideas, but emotions. Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. [ Henry Giles ]
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity. [ La Bruyere ]
When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]
The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies. [ G. A. Sala ]
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]