NovelIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane AustenPride and Prejudice · 1813★ 7.8
LetterThe Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the Minds and Hearts of the People.John Adams1818★ 7.0
SongAnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there- O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!Francis Scott KeyThe Star-Spangled Banner · 1814★ 6.9
PoemThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the Lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more.Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818★ 6.9
Poem"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOzymandias · 1818★ 6.9
Philosophical literatureThe man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see.Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Idea · 1819★ 6.9
LetterHe who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.Thomas Jefferson1813★ 6.2
Letter · Political writingSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched... Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.Thomas Jefferson1816★ 6.2
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.Pierre-Simon Laplace1812★ 6.0
NovelYou ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.Jane AustenPride and Prejudice · 1813★ 5.6
PoemWho would be free themselves must strike the blow?Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818★ 5.5
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?Tecumseh1810★ 5.3
These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.Tecumseh1810★ 5.3
Personal journalWhen one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.Lord Byron1813★ 5.3
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.Stephen Decatur1816★ 5.2
Speech · Political speechThe condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.John Philpot Curran1816★ 5.1
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