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 can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the steadfastness of your integrity. Be always vigilant and fearful. Never think you have enough… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“"The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws. — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share
Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“Death was a sweet relief for my present miseries, and I vehemently longed for its arrival.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“There is no standard by which time can be measured, but the succession of our thoughts, and the changes that take place in the… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
