To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore SimmsThere is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
William Gilmore SimmsThere is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
William Gilmore SimmsNot in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
William Gilmore Simms