The only infallible judge. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Her tears her only eloquence. [ Rogers ]
Envy feeds only on the living. [ Ovid ]
A book is the only immortality. [ Rufus Choate ]
We can only obey our own polarity. [ Emerson ]
The brave only know how to forgive. [ Sterne ]
Education is only second to nature. [ Horace Bushnell ]
Calumny is only the noise of madmen. [ Diogenes ]
Freedom is only in the land of dreams. [ Schiller ]
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Only so much do I know as I have lived. [ Emerson ]
Oh, only a free soul will never grow old! [ Jean Paul Richter ]
The true artist can only labor con amore. [ Victor Hugo ]
Necessity is the only successful adviser. [ Charles Reade ]
Death has left on her only the beautiful. [ Hood ]
Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands. [ Byron ]
The world knows only two, that's Home and I. [ Ben Jonson ]
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. [ Lamartine ]
There is properly no history, only biography. [ Emerson ]
Your little child is your only true democrat. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
There is only one proof of ability, - action. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of. [ Fuller ]
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. [ Lamartine ]
Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. [ Publius Syrus ]
Years do not make sages; they only make old men. [ Madame Swetchine ]
One triumphs over calumny only by disdaining it. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. [ Socrates ]
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [ Lessing ]
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. [ Madame de Maintenon ]
It is only in little matters that men are cowards. [ W. H. Herbert ]
One expresses well only the love he does not feel. [ A. Karr ]
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. [ Whately ]
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. [ Landor ]
Avarice is only prudence and economy pushed to excess. [ Cbattield ]
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. [ Coleridge ]
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. [ Johnson ]
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The present is the only reality and the only certainty. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
There is no end of affection taken in at the eyes only. [ Steele ]
It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours. [ George Macdonald ]
Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. [ Lord Palmerston ]
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. [ Lucan ]
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic. [ Willmott ]
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. [ Vitruvius ]
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. [ Ouida ]
He who was taught only by himself, had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. [ Swift ]
Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is. [ Amiel ]
Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. [ Disraeli ]
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. [ Seneca ]
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL ]
The world is only saved by the breath of the school children. [ Talmud ]
If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. [ Martial ]
Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. [ Ben Jonson ]
They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep. [ Owen Meredith ]
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. [ Stanislaus ]
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. [ Novalis ]
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. [ Richter ]
We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [ Phaedrus ]
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. [ Lowell ]
He who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom. [ Voltaire ]
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. [ James Shirley ]
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. [ Richter ]
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]
It is but poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. [ Robert Hall ]
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. [ George Sand ]
He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise. [ Voltaire ]
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. [ Southern ]
Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience only is tangible. [ Hosea Ballou ]
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. [ Boileau ]
It is the nature of experience to come to us only when too late for use. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life. [ Theodore Parker ]
Characters never change. Opinions alter, - characters are only developed. [ Disraeli ]
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. [ Voltaire ]
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]
Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. [ Horace Mann ]
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. [ Landor ]
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. [ Goethe ]
Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature - and only that. [ Mrs. H. B. Stowe ]
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. [ Plutarch ]
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Education is only like good culture, - it changes the size, but not the sort. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only that it may fall. [ Seneca ]
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. [ Daniel Webster ]
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. [ J. Petit-Senn ]