Moderation is the basis of justice. [ George MacDonald ]
Admiration is the basis of ignoraince. [ Balthasar Gracian ]
Religion is the basis of civil society. [ Burke ]
Constancy is the basis of all the virtues. [ Motto ]
Affection is the broadest basis of good in life. [ George Eliot ]
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The basis of every scandal is an absolutely immoral certainty. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
That fabric rises high as heaven whose basis on devotion stands. [ Prior ]
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. [ Beaconsfield ]
Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. [ Father Andre ]
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe, - human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. [ James A. Garfield ]
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]
There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere. [ Johnson ]
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. [ Amiel ]
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. [ B. R. Haydon ]
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. [ Bovee ]
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. [ Auerbach ]
I consider the study of mathematics the basis of the soundest mode of reasoning, the foundation of metaphysical deductions; it contains eternal truths, concluded by pure intelligence. [ Sir R. Maltravers ]
Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. [ Schlegel ]
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]