1850

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

1850

★ 7.0

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

All's fair in love and war.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

Frank E. Smedley

1850

★ 5.3

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

Essay

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic · 1850

★ 4.5

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 4.5

She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 4.4

Novel · Coming of age story

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 3.8

Personal journal

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

1850

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Another’s soul is a dark forest.

Ivan Turgenev

1850

★ 3.7

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 3.6

Sonnet · Poem

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1850

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

1850

★ 3.6

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 3.6

Song

Allan Cunningham

1850

★ 3.5

If thou wilt ease thine heart Of lover and all its smart Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1850

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 2.3

Essay

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1850

★ 2.1

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife.

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 2.0

Love is and was my Lord and King.

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 2.0

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Moments of crisis produce in man a redoubling of life.

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

1850

★ 1.9

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1850

★ 1.9

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 1.9

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.