Religion is life essential. [ George MacDonald ]
Accuracy is essential to beauty. [ Emerson ]
Knowledge is essential to freedom. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The most essential point is lowliness. [ Fenelon ]
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. [ Beaconsfield ]
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. [ Chapin ]
Human Inventions are no essential parts of divine worship. [ Proverb ]
The essential thing for all creatures is to be made to do right. [ John Ruskin ]
In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. [ Melanthon ]
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. [ Froude ]
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. [ Burke ]
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. [ Joubert ]
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. [ Thoreau ]
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. [ Washington Allston ]
Sentiment, in its broadest acceptation, is as essential to the true enjoyment and grace of life as mind. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character. [ Richard Fuller ]
Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]
Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Failures always overtake those who have the power to do, without the will to act, and who need that essential quality in life, energy. [ James Ellis ]
Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]
Employment, which Galen calls nature's physician,
is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. [ Burton ]
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. [ John Ruskin ]
Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition; - at least, the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed. [ Sydney Smith ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]
Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]
Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]
After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]
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 ]
Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]
If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]