Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 10, 1779 Death: October 6, 1863
I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be….
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of ….
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers..
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who e….