I Samuel Quotes

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

Communion is deeper than theology.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

I trust most people. Not producers.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

Nature never gives everything at once.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.