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.
William Gilmore SimmsNo errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
William Gilmore SimmsGenius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
William Gilmore SimmsTears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
William Gilmore Simms