Samuel Quotes

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Despair young and never look back.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

I want you to put more life into your dying.

I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.