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Samuel Parr Quotes

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

Samuel Parr
Triumph, Excess, Austerity

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

Samuel Parr
Justice, Sound, Policy
Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Samuel Parr
Men, Evil, Private Life
Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.257

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

Samuel Parr
Gratitude, Justice, Virtue

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

Samuel Parr
Friendship, Men, Imperfect
Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.514

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