Samuel Quotes

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Science and art are not opposed.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.