Quotes from Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Never less alone than when alone.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

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

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

To know her was to love her