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
Sophie Tucker 
Tommy Hilfiger 
Ignatius Donnelly 
Yo-Yo Ma 
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet 
Linda Ronstadt 
Anne Sexton 
Brian Molko