Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the …

- William Gilmore Simms

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

- William Gilmore Simms

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

- William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilit…

- William Gilmore Simms

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

- William Gilmore Simms

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

- William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

- William Gilmore Simms

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

- William Gilmore Simms

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

- William Gilmore Simms