“Life,”—Charlotte Brontë.
Charlotte Brontë, a famous English novelist, was born in Thornton, April 21, 1816, and died in Haworth, March 31, 1855. She wrote: “Shirley,” “Villette,” “The Professor,” and “Jane Eyre,” her most famous work.
There are four varieties in society,—the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
—Taine.
Adolphe Hippolyte Taine, an illustrious French historian and critic, was born at Vouziers (Ardennes), April 21, 1828, and died at Paris, March 5, 1893. Among his publications are: “Essay on La Fontaine’s Fables,” “Essay on Livy,” “Journey to the Pyrenees,” “French Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century,” “Essays in Criticism and History,” “Notes on England,” “Contemporary English Writers,” “History of English Literature,” “English Idealism,” “New Essays in Criticism and History,” “Philosophy of Art,” “Philosophy of Art in Italy,” “Tour in Italy, Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice,” “Notes on Paris,” “The Ideal in Art,” “Philosophy of Art in Greece,” “On the Understanding,” “The Old Régime,” “The Revolutionary Governments,” etc.
When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough;
I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
“Tom Thumb the Great,” Act. i, Sc. 3,—Henry Fielding.
Henry Fielding, a celebrated English novelist, was born at Sharpham Park, Somersetshire, April 22, 1707, and died at Lisbon, October 8, 1754. His most famous works are: “Tom Jones, or the History of a Foundling,” “The Adventures of Joseph Andrews,” “Amelia,” and “The History of Jonathan Wild.”
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
—Emmanuel Kant.