Admiring Quote by Samuel Laman Blanchard

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

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

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and…

— 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…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er…

— 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…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

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

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

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower,…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard