Samuel Quotes
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
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.
