Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [ Goethe ]
Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues. [ Theodore Parker ]
He bore a simple wild-flower wreath:
Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose;
Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe
Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows
With purple bells; the amaranth bright.
That no decay, nor fading knows.
Like true love's holiest, rarest light;
And every purest flower, that blows,
In that sweet time, which Love most blesses,
When spring on summer's confines presses. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
The two rarest things to be met with are good sense and good nature. [ William Hazlitt ]
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. [ Massey ]
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyere ]
After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyère ]
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. [ Malesherbes ]
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. [ Hazlitt ]
The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. [ Lewis Vertoman ]
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. [ Gladstone ]
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]