samuel Quotes

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

“Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick...”

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.”

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.”

“I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.”

“Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.”

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

“When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.”

“Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.”