Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1776 Death: April 14, 1859
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion..
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a….
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world..
The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving..
Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule..
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen..
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the i….
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Dru….