Samuel Quotes

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

The A-bomb is dynamite.

You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Rage is essentially vulgar.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.