Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits…

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three month…

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasi…

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

- Samuel Laman Blanchard

For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he recei…

- Samuel Laman Blanchard