William Gilmore Simms Quote

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.


Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (ed. 1853)


The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.