Quotes from John Mason Brown

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first- naming for effect makes me cringe.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.