The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling the confidence in success which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs they become naturally only objects of sense.

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred I mean a thousand scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Religion for better or for worse has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Every one more or less loves Power yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.