William Gilmore Simms
6 quotes.
Quotes by William Gilmore Simms
- Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
- Our distinctions do not lie in the places which we occupy, but in the grace and dignity with which we fill them.
- Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities, we gain only as we give.
- Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities. We gain only as we give. There is no beggar so destitute as he who can afford nothing to his neighbor.
- Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
- The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.