All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are ente…

- Charles Brockden Brown

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice ca…

- Charles Brockden Brown

Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the steadfastness of your integrity. Be always vigilant and fearful. Never think you have enough o…

- Charles Brockden Brown

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

- Charles Brockden Brown

Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.

- Charles Brockden Brown

I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, the…

- Charles Brockden Brown