I Samuel Quotes
How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."
Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.