Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
William Hill Brown

Born: November, 1765
Died: September 2, 1793 (aged 27)
Bio: William Hill Brown was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, and "Harriot, or the Domestic Reconciliation", as well as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.







