Dandyism is a species of genius. [ Hazlitt ]

Gratitude is a species of justice. [ Johnson ]

Bad taste is a species of bad morals. [ Bovee ]

Bad manners are a species of bad morals. [ C. N. Bovee ]

The geologist is a new species of antiquarian. [ ? ]

Every species of activity is met by a negation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Success makes some species of crimes honourable. [ Seneca ]

The movement of the species is upward, irresistibly upward. [ Bancroft ]

A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. [ Addison ]

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. [ Seneca ]

It is a species of agreeable servitude, to be under an obligation to those we esteem. [ Queen Christina ]

It is a species of slander, to lessen the merits or exaggerate the failings of others. [ W. Gilpin ]

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]

Good poetry is always personification, and heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

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 ]

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]

There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]

There is a species of ferocity in rejecting indiscriminately all kinds of praises; we should be accessible to those which are given to us by good people, who praise in us sincerely praiseworthy things. [ Bruyere ]

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. [ Robert Hall ]

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage - the species Man from the genus Ape. [ Carlyle ]

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, - a general preparation for whatever species of the art the student may afterwards choose for his more particular application. The power of drawing, modelling, and using colors is very properly called the language of the art. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]