There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet w…

- Samuel Palmer

Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former ass…

- Samuel Palmer

When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for…

- Samuel Palmer

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

- Samuel Palmer

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

- Samuel Palmer

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

- Samuel Palmer

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

- Samuel Palmer

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon…

- Samuel Palmer

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sp…

- Samuel Palmer