Samuel Quotes

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

I know a little about a lot of things. But I don't know a lot about everything.

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

A vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Isreal.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.