Samuel Quotes

There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.

We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.