Samuel Rogers Quotes about Heart

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Heart, Understanding

Samuel Rogers, William Maltby (1856). “Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana”, p.121

Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

Samuel Rogers

Regret, Father, Heart

Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

Samuel Rogers

Heart, Soul, Feelings

Samuel Rogers (1839). “Poems ...”, p.13