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
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
LetterIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.Thomas Jefferson1816★ 3.8
LetterNothing gives one person so great advantage over another, as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.Thomas Jefferson1816★ 3.8
PoemIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1816★ 3.7
Personal journalIf a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge1816★ 3.5
NovelSurprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.Jane AustenEmma · 1816★ 2.2
NovelThe folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!... Five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow... Four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home.Jane AustenEmma · 1816★ 2.1
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