Few people know how to be old. [ La Roche ]

How goodness heightens beauty! [ Hannah More ]

O God, how lovely still is life! [ Schiller ]

How near to good is what is fair! [ Ben Jonson ]

How sweet and sacred idleness is! [ Landor ]

How like they are to human things! [ Longfellow ]

The brave only know how to forgive. [ Sterne ]

How use doth breed a habit in a man! [ William Shakespeare ]

How populous, how vital is the grave! [ Young ]

See how they beg an alms of flattery! [ Young ]

How beautiful is victory, but how dear! [ Boufflers ]

How wise must one be to be always kind. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! [ William Shakespeare ]

How strangely easy difficult things are! [ Charles Buxton ]

Let them obey that know not how to rule. [ William Shakespeare ]

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore! [ Anacreon ]

O world! how many hopes thou dost engulf! [ A. de Musset ]

How much an ill word may empoison liking! [ William Shakespeare ]

How wretched is the man who never mourned! [ Young ]

How much of love lies buried dusty graves! [ F. A. Durivage ]

Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory! [ Syrus ]

How peaceful and how powerful is the grave! [ Byron ]

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. [ Stillingfleet ]

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell! [ Young ]

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! [ William Shakespeare ]

How the wit brightens! how the style refines! [ Pope ]

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! [ Bailey ]

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! [ William Shakespeare ]

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! [ Homer ]

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! [ William Shakespeare ]

How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed. [ Mrs. C. H. W. Esling ]

Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth. [ St. James ]

Dead! God, how much there is in that little word! [ Byron ]

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together! [ George Villiers ]

How blessings brighten as they take their flight! [ Young ]

How dear is our native land to all noble hearts ! [ Voltaire ]

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. [ De Maistre ]

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [ Richelieu ]

How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! [ Washington Irving ]

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed? [ Confucius ]

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! [ Lavater ]

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! [ Jean Ingelow ]

It is easier to know how to speak, than how to be silent. [ Proverb ]

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity! [ Plautus ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another! [ T. B. Read ]

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [ Terence ]

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. [ H. W. Beecher ]

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it? — [ La Bruyre ]

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof. [ Byron ]

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? [ Coleridge ]

A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise then? [ Ben Jonson ]

He that knows not how to hold his tongue knows not how to talk. [ Proverb ]

How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. [ Colley Cibber ]

Teach him how to live, And, oh? still harder lesson! how to die. [ Bishop Porteus ]

Music! - O, how faint, how weak, language fades before thy spell! [ Moore ]

Whence? whither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. [ Joubert ]

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. [ Juvenal ]

How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success! [ Madame Swetchine ]

How the giant element from rock to rock leaps with delirious bound! [ Byron ]

How sour sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept! [ William Shakespeare ]

How hast thou purchased this experience? By my penny of observation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. [ Michelet ]

There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only thing that grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. [ Emerson ]

He knows enough who knows how to live and how to keep his own counsel. [ French Proverb ]

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [ Lucretius ]

And hark, how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher. [ Wordsworth ]

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. [ Southern ]

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done. [ Plautus ]

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. [ Sophocles ]

He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. [ Horace ]

Thy attributes, how endearing! how parental! all loving, all forgiving. [ Hosea Ballou ]

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [ Lucan ]

It will appear how impertinent that grief was which served no end of life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! [ Hosea Ballou ]

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy - a vice which yields no return? [ Balzac ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt. [ Ovid ]

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]

I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. [ Hazlitt ]

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt! [ Blair ]

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! [ William Shakespeare ]

O how portentous is prosperity! How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines! [ Young ]

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. [ Beattie ]

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. [ Emerson ]

Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]