Silence, - the applause of real and durable impressions. [ Lamartine ]

Forever haltless hurries Time, the Durable to gain,
Be true, and thou shalt fetter Time with everlasting chain. [ Schiller ]

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. [ Menander ]

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. [ Solon ]

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. [ Dr. Johnson ]

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. [ Jane Porter ]

The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]

A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. [ Bacon ]

The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]