Neither crow nor croak. [ Proverb ]

Neither desire nor fear. [ Motto ]

I neither fear nor despise. [ Motto ]

He neither ties nor unties. [ Proverb ]

Neither rashly nor timidly. [ Motto ]

'Tis neither here nor there. [ William Shakespeare ]

Neither delay nor cessation. [ Virgil ]

Neither hear nor tell secrets. [ Fuller ]

Love is neither bought nor sold. [ Proverb ]

Neither in Kent nor Christendom. [ Proverb ]

Neither bribe nor lose thy right. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid. [ William Shakespeare ]

Truth will bear
Neither rude handling, nor unfair
Evasion of its wards, and mocks
Whoever would falsely enter there. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Neither by entreaty nor by a bribe. [ Motto ]

I neither have, nor want, nor care. [ Motto ]

In confusion; neither head nor tail. [ Proverb ]

She is neither maid, wife nor widow. [ Proverb ]

Neither above nor below his business. [ Tacitus ]

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. [ Rufus Choate ]

Neither to seek nor to despise honours. [ Motto ]

Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]

Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been. [ Coleridge ]

Neither a log nor a stork, good Jupiter. [ Proverb ]

He never was good, neither egg nor bird. [ Proverb ]

Neither fear nor wish for your last day. [ Mart ]

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued.
And neither party loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man delights not me, - nor woman neither. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy . [ Proverb ]

Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Full guts neither run away nor fight well. [ Proverb ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A full belly neither fights nor flies well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You will neither dance nor hold the candle. [ Proverb ]

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. [ Cowley ]

The eternal talker neither hears nor learns. [ Proverb ]

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. [ Pope ]

The public have neither shame nor gratitude. [ Hazlitt ]

Neither eyes on letters nor hands in coffers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

War ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. [ Pliny the Younger ]

Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Neither for king nor for people, but for both. [ Motto ]

Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark. [ Proverb ]

Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. [ Horace ]

Neither griefs nor joys were ordered for secrecy. [ Proverb ]

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander. [ G. W. Curtis ]

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright;
But looked too near, have neither heat nor light. [ Webster ]

Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises. [ Proverb ]

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing. [ George MacDonald ]

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. [ Proverb ]

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Nor actions, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. [ Proverb ]

He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]

A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping. [ Proverb ]

As wilful as a pig, that will neither lead nor drive. [ Proverb ]

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. [ Fielding ]

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. [ Proverb ]

Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]

He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow. [ Proverb ]

Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy. [ Proverb ]

If your joys cannot be long, so neither can your sorrows. [ Proverb ]

We should all be perfect if we were neither men nor women.

Neither coat nor cloak will hold out against rain upon rain. [ Proverb ]

Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]

Thersites's body is as good as Ajax's when neither are alive. [ William Shakespeare ]

When a knave is in a plum tree he hath neither friend nor kin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To be happy, one must ask neither the how nor the why of life.

Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood. [ Serv. Proverb ]

Convictions that remain silent are neither sincere nor profound.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

He's like Garby, whose soul neither God nor the devil would have. [ Proverb ]

Neither praise nor dispraise thyself: thy actions serve the turn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The frog sings; and yet she has neither hair nor wool to cover her. [ Proverb ]

Like Wood's dog, he will neither go to the church nor stay at home. [ Proverb ]

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors. [ Shakespeare ]

Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

And as neither would allow the other to pay for him, neither paid at all. [ Heine ]

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. [ Bible ]

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. [ Hume ]

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. [ Aristotle ]

He who has neither friend, nor enemy, is without talents, powers, or energy. [ Lavater ]

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. [ Young ]

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

We say a thing is without rhyme or reason when it has neither number nor sense. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Take from men ambition and vanity and you will have neither heroes nor patriots. [ Seneca ]

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]

Our century leans neither toward evil nor toward good: it goes toward mediocrity. [ A. de Gasparin ]

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. [ Emerson ]

Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. [ Jesus ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. [ William Penn ]

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]

Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour. [ Feltham ]

In all you write be neither low nor vile: The meanest theme may have a proper style. [ Dryden ]

Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. [ Pascal ]

Virtue hath some perverseness, for she will neither believe her good nor other's ill. [ Donne ]

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence. [ Langford ]

Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. [ Professor Huxley ]

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it. [ Montaigne ]

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason. [ Sir Thos. More ]

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. [ Joseph Roux ]

It is a sad thing when men have neither wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. [ La Bruyere ]

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state. [ Johnson ]

We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. [ Cicero ]

Fuss is half-sister to Hurry, and neither of them can do any thing without getting in their own way. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Men may say of marriage and women what they please: they will renounce neither the one nor the other.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [ La Bruyere ]

Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. [ Ovid ]

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. [ Burke ]

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. [ Joubert ]

Genius, in one respect, is like gold - numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. [ Colton ]

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]

Virtue does not give talents, but it supplies their place. Talents neither give virtue, nor supply the place of it. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. [ Colton ]

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]

Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. [ Pascal ]

If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us. [ Michael Angelo ]

Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. [ Pascal ]

The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look nor in the clothes. [ Clarendon ]

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin. [ Bible ]

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]

Bees will not work except in darkness; thought will not work except in silence; neither will virtue work except in secrecy. [ Carlyle ]

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]

Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. [ J. Locke ]

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [ Sallust ]

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. [ Raleigh ]

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]

Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection; thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. [ Tupper ]

If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. [ Livingston ]

Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. [ Cicero ]

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. [ Adam Clarke ]

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]

Nor or Or? These conjunctions are often confused. Example: I can neither read or write. In this sentence or is incorrectly used for nor. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. [ Veeshnoo Sarma ]

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]

Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic. [ Burke ]

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]

Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. [ Swift ]

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. [ Colton ]

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. [ Colton ]

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]

Unwillingness to acknowledge whatever is good in religion foreign to our own has always been a very common trait of human nature; but it seems to me neither generous nor just. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. [ Rousseau ]

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it. [ Lavater ]

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. [ Bacon ]

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. [ Colton ]

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men. [ Henry Home ]

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. [ Landor ]

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. [ John Ruskin ]

As the mind of Johnson was robust, but neither nimble nor graceful, so his style was void of all grace and ease, and, being the most unlike of all styles to the natural effusion of a cultivated mind, had the least pretension to the praise of eloquence. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]

Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]

Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime. A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]

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 ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose - a power to accomplish all that we undertake; for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry. Pope in painting. Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men. [ Colton ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]