William Gilmore SimmsThinkers

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Love is but another name for that Inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

Solitude is to the mind what sleep is to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

The Tear is the natural penalties of pleasure.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.