An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
George Saintsbury

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
Jef I. Richards

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
James Lafferty

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.
William E. Gladstone

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Milovan Djilas

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli