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 begotten of a summer dream. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share
So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir."… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
