Samuel Quotes

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

A library is thought in cold storage.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.