I Samuel Quotes

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.