Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.