Samuel hoffenstein

When you're away, I'm restless, lonelyWretched, bored, dejected; onlyhere's the rub, my darling dear,I feel the same when you are here.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

We don't love to work only, ... The Samuel Gompers Papers.

[Samuel Sewall is America's counterpart to his slightly older contemporary, Samuel Pepys. Both men were essentially humane and humorous pragmatists, honest about themselves and endlessly inquisitive about what makes other people tick. Both started keeping diaries in the 1660s. Sewall, unlike Pepys, kept his up for more than 50 years, filling it with frank, earthy, often touching detail:] We can actually feel life's slither as it slides through our fingers, and his, ... Sewall was inventing what it is to be a private citizen.

To know her was to love her