"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak;
they are but the instruments of the wise."
-Samuel Lover

"Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs."
-Samuel Lover

"Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes."
-Samuel Lover

"A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping.
The Angel's Whisper."
-Samuel Lover

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

"Come live in my heart and pay no rent."
-Samuel Lover

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