The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

- Samuel Lover

Better to be safe than sorry.

- Samuel Lover

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and no…

- Samuel Lover

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scr…

- Samuel Lover

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

- Samuel Lover

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

- Samuel Lover

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

- Samuel Lover

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

- Samuel Lover

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

- Samuel Lover