Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

Nature takes as much pains in the womb for the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. [ Fielding ]

Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]

Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope and afterwards rewarded by joy. [ Dr. Johnson ]