Quotes About Samuel

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

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

I had, in college, a professor called Walter Jackson Bate, and he taught a course called The Age of Johnson. It's about Samuel Johnson and his period, 18th-century British writing. So we all got to endure Samuel Johnson, and Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' is now my favorite book. I read it all the time I can; it's great for going to sleep.

'Barely Lethal' is a non-Disney project, and is with Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jessica Alba. It is a really, really phenomenal film.

For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!

I am Odem`s nephew. Uthirk´ s son." (Yarvi) "Oh, dear gods", he heards Samuel whistling, " We are dead

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

I'm very flattered the press wants to write about me.

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work.

P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?

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

In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;

ANSWER-JOBBER  (A'NSWER-JOBBER)   n.s.[from answer and jobber.]He that makes a trade of writing answers. What disgusts me from having any thing to do with answer-jobbers, is, that they have no conscience.Swift.

APHETA  (APHE'TA)   n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.

Parents never give allowances for an innocent passion.Swift.6. Established

All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This