There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.