Samuel Quotes
God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
