Samuel Quotes

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

The business of life is to go forward.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Applause abates diligence.

When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

Collective will supplants individual whim

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

I suppose the problem ... is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up.