Famous Quotes / William Gilmore Simms
9 Quotations by William Gilmore Simms
- 1. He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death ...
- 2. Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establis ...
- 3. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
- 4. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
- 5. Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
- 6. The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
- 7. The only true source of politeness is consideration.
- 8. The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a w ...
- 9. The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of c ...