Samuel Quotes

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Do not be ungrateful to animals.

Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

I want you to put more life into your dying.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

What a glorious morning this is!

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.