Glory is the child of peril.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Glory
A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times according to his animal spirits, and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Danger
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Boldness, Courage, Risk-taking, Risk
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Ignorance, Wisdom
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Wisdom
Nature I’ll court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Retirement
The blast that blows loudest is soonest overblown.
—Tobias Smollett
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Robert W. Service Scottish Poet
- George MacDonald Scottish Poet, Novelist
- Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Novelist
- J. M. Barrie Scottish Novelist
- Walter Scott Scottish Novelist
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist
- Robert Burns Scottish Poet, Songwriter
- Hans Christian Andersen Danish Author
- George William Russell Irish Author
- Nathaniel Parker Willis American Poet, Playwright
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