Tobias Smollett

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share,Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”

“Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread,And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind.”

“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

“Thy fatal shafts unerring move,I bow before thine altar, Love!”

“Keen are the pangsAnd virtue crowns the sacred scene.”

“To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rulesExpect revolving bliss?”

“To exultAnd the mean triumph of a dastard soul.”

“True courage scornsAnd, to the valiant, actions speak alone.”

“To send the injur'd unredress'd away,Degrades, denies, and should dethrone a king!”