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

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Peter Latham

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
Dee Hock

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
Thomas Bulfinch

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
Chow Yun-Fat

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
Lindsay Lohan

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.
Paul Twitchell

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Dee Hock

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno

The body is the substance of the stone.
George Ripley

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
Albert Claude

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Dee Hock

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Herbert Croly

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
George Soros

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo