1870s · Skopia

Showing 144 quotes from the 1870s

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 9.2

Scientific literature

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 8.5

An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.

1878

★ 8.4

Go West, young man.

1870

★ 8.3

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Life, what is it but a dream?

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 7.1

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn · 1878

★ 7.0

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

1874

★ 7.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The State is not "abolished", it withers away.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring · 1878

★ 7.0

Philosophical literature

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

1870

★ 6.9

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

1877

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

★ 6.9

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1879

★ 6.4

Scientific literature

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 6.3

Essay · Philosophical literature

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion · 1873

★ 6.2

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

1877

★ 6.0

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 5.6

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1879

★ 5.6

Political literature

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude.

1870

★ 5.5

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

★ 5.5

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