It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Samuel Laman BlanchardWhat if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Samuel Laman BlanchardIt is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.
Samuel Laman BlanchardOf all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.
Samuel Laman Blanchard