Quotes by : Thomas de Quincey

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing....

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing....

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who....

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude:....

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered;....

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock,....