Creative Quotations from Samuel Lover (1797-1868)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Samuel Lover
(1797-1868) born on Feb 24

Anglo-Irish "novelist, songwriter, painter". "He was a successful portrait painter and songwriter, "Rosy O'More," 1826 which he also developed into a novel and play."

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell."

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen."

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""My Mother Dear.""
R:	"In "Best Quotations for All Occasions," by Lewis C. Henry, 1945."
A:	""Handy Andy," ch. 36."
N:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K:	"In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."