Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe and a suspicious friend. [ Pope ]

O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. [ Alcott ]

Character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. [ Chapin ]

In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on. [ Pythagoras ]

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. [ Pythagoras ]

Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it: though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. [ Saville ]

Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]