Charles Brockden Brown Quotes

• No confíes en la firmeza de tus principios ni en la constancia de tu integridad. Sé siempre vigilante y temeroso. Nunca pienses que tienes suficiente conocimiento, y no dejes que tu cautela se duerma ni por un momento, porque no sabes cuando el peligro está cerca.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Integrity, Thinking, Principles

  Charles Brockden Brown (1998). “Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Law, Ideas, Mind

  "Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories".

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• 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 his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Evil, Design, Mind

  Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

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• 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 admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing

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• I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Broken, Forever, Links

  Charles Brockden Brown (1989). “Wieland, or, The transformation: an American tale”, Doubleday

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• How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Men, Slender, Accommodations

  Charles Brockden Brown (2012). “Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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