Quotes from authors passed in 1792
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds
I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens
Tom Hayden 
Majel Barrett 
Michael E. Mann 
Lyman Abbott 
Shel Silverstein 
Sally Rand 
Jorge Luis Borges 
Chaka Fattah