19th Century

🇺🇸Nat Turner

Religion

1800–1831

"And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast."

🇬🇧George Long (scholar)

Literature

1800–1879

"I have heard it maintained that it is always the teacher's fault if a boy does not learn, even a stupid and idle boy; but I leave the decision of this matter to the "communis sensus," the common intelligence of mankind."

"Online Books by Charles James Cannon at the"

Charles Dodgson (bishop)

Religion

1800–1868

"I have lost the use of everything but my reason, though my head is entrenched in three night-caps, and my throat, which is very bad, is fortified by a pair of stockings twisted in the form of a cravat."

Edward Bouverie Pusey

Religion

Oxford Movement

1800–1882

"In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase."

🇺🇸John Brown (abolitionist)

Social Activism

1800–1859

"I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her."

🇺🇸Millard Fillmore

Politics

1800–1850

"Essays on Fillmore and each member of his cabinet and First Lady"

🇬🇧Charles Neaves

Religion

1800–1876

"Reference to marriage contract with Eliza MacDonald"

🇺🇸Mark A. Cooper

Politics

1800–1885

"Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!"

Charles Dodgson (archdeacon)

Religion

1800–1868

"His reverence for sacred things was so great that he was never known to relate a story which included a jest upon words from the Bible."

🇩🇪Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Military

1800–1891

"We may add that the Poland of the fifteenth century was one of the most civilised states of Europe."

🇺🇸George Bancroft

Politics

1800–1891

"George Bancroft Papers, 1823-1890 - Manuscripts and Archives, New York Public Library"

🇦🇺Edward Thomson

Politics

1800–1879

"You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a Divine success. "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."

William Barnes

Literature

1801–1886

"The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature."

🇬🇧John Henry Newman

Religion

1801–1890

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

George Biddell Airy

Mathematics

1801–1892

"In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means."

🇺🇸Brigham Young

Politics

1801–1877

"This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth"

🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat

Economics

1801–1850

"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."

🇫🇷Antoine Augustin Cournot

Mathematics

1801–1877

"Anyone who understands algebraic notation, reads at a glance in an equation results reached arithmetically only with great labour and pains."

🇺🇸William H. Seward

Politics

1801–1872

"I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue."

🇧🇷Victor Hugo

Literature

French Romanticism

1802–1885

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

Richard Henry Horne

Literature

1802–1884

"'T is always morning somewhere in the world."

🇺🇸Edward Coote Pinkney

Education

1802–1828

"Edward Coote Pinkney poems at Poets' Corner"

🇺🇸Horace Bushnell

Literature

1802–1876

"God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance."

Harriet Martineau

Literature

1802–1876

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

🇺🇸George D. Prentice

Literature

1802–1870

"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."

"Personal injury is a more serious matter than damage to property."

🇭🇺Lajos Kossuth

Politics

1802–1894

"Early articles of "The Times" about Lajos Kussuth"

🇬🇧Charles Wheatstone

Science

1802–1875

"I have also rendered the phonic molecular vibrations visible, when produced by the longitudinal oscillations of a column of air ..."