Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
Charles Sturt

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
Arthur E. Waite

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
Wilfred Owen

Opportunities are seldom labeled.
John A. Shedd

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
David Wilkerson

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Philip Stanhope

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
Aldrich Ames

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Bernard de Mandeville

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
George Adam Smith

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
W. G. Sebald

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
John Norman