1841

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.1

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.0

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.7

Personal journal

Henry David Thoreau

1841

★ 3.6

It was the remark of a Roman consul in an early period of that celebrated Republic that a most striking contrast was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust before and after obtaining them, they seldom carrying out in the latter case the pledges and promises made in the former.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 3.6

As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understandings of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 3.6

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.2

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.2

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.1

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.1

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.0

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.0

Lecture

The Conservative · 1841

★ 2.0

National anthem · Song

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman

1841

★ 1.9

If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends. Beyond that they become destructive of public virtue, the parent of a spirit antagonist to that of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.9

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.9

Always the friend of my countrymen, never their flatterer, it becomes my duty to say to them from this high place to which their partiality has exalted me that there exists in the land a spirit hostile to their best interests—hostile to liberty itself. It is a spirit contracted in its views, selfish in its objects.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.9

Those who are called upon to administer it must recognize as its leading principle the duty of shaping their measures so as to produce the greatest good to the greatest number.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.9

I consider the veto power, therefore given by the Constitution to the Executive of the United States solely as a conservative power, to be used only first, to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from the effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood, and, thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.9

Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds · 1841

★ 1.9

Poem

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain; The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

John Clare

1841

★ 1.9

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 1.2

The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.2

But there is still an undercurrent at work by which, if not seasonably checked, the worst apprehensions of our antifederal patriots will be realized, and not only will the State authorities be overshadowed by the great increase of power in the executive department of the General Government, but the character of that Government, if not its designation, be essentially and radically changed.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.1

There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 1.1

In our intercourse with our aboriginal neighbors the same liberality and justice which marked the course prescribed to me by two of my illustrious predecessors when acting under their direction in the discharge of the duties of superintendent and commissioner shall be strictly observed.