Thomas De Quincey Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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