Memorable Quotations: Essayists of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of great essayists of the past: Samuel Adams, Joseph Addison, Guillaume Apollinaire, Matthew Arnold, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Sir Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Jorge Luis Borges, Andre Breton, Joseph Brodsky, Anthony Burgess, Edmund Burke, Albert Camus, Thomas Carlyle, G. K. Chesterton, Cicero, Frank Moore Colby, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Thomas De Quincey, Jacques Derrida, Denis Diderot, John Dryden, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, George Gissing, William Golding, Elizabeth Hardwick, William Hazlitt, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley, Washington Irving, Samuel Johnson, June Jordan, Joseph Joubert, Karl Kraus, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Christopher Lasch, Le Corbusier, Stanislaw Lem, John Locke, Jean Francois Lyotard, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Norman Mailer, Jose Marti, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Merton, Alice Meynell, Alice Duer Miller, Henry Miller, C. Wright Mills, Michel de Montaigne, Howard Nemerov, Gerard de Nerval, Cardinal John Newman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Florence Nightingale, Flannery O'Connor, Jose Ortega y Gasset, George Orwell, Ouida, Thomas Paine, Vance Palmer, Plutarch, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Agnes Repplier, Laura Riding, Richard Rorty, Harold Rosenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. Schumacher, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Styron, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Tristan Tzara, Paul Valery, Voltaire, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Xenophon, and Marguerite Yourcenar.