The rust rots the steel which use preserves. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Gratitude preserves old friendship, and procures new. [ Proverb ]

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. [ Confucius ]

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. [ Samuel Foote ]

As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusion. [ Chateaubriand ]

Chance is a kind of god. for it preserves many things which we do not observe. [ Menander ]

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. [ Saadi ]

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. [ Bovee ]

Marriage is a tie that hope embellishes, that happiness preserves, and that adversity fortifies. [ Alibert ]

Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water. [ Manu ]

The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes saves her virtue: the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in secret, and preserves it in public opinion. [ Mme. du Socage ]

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. [ Feltham ]

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]