57 Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.