Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.Victor Hugo1864★ 7.0
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.George Perkins MarshMan and Nature · 1864★ 5.2
LectureTaste...Is the only morality...Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.John Ruskin1864★ 4.4
Speech · Political speechWar, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.Abraham Lincoln1864★ 3.8
Poem · NewspaperSuccess is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.Emily Dickinson1864★ 3.7
PoemGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.Robert Browning1864★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechWhere Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.Charles Sumner1864★ 3.5
LectureBe sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.John Ruskin1864★ 3.5
LetterYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.William Tecumseh Sherman1864★ 2.7
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.Abraham Lincoln1864★ 2.0
Political speechI, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow citizens wherever they may then be as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do farther recommend to my fellow citizens aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of events for a turn of the inestimable blessings of Peace, Union and Harmony throughout the land, which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.Abraham Lincoln1864★ 2.0
Speech · Political speechNowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.Abraham Lincoln1864★ 2.0
Interview · NewspaperIt is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event.Abraham Lincoln1864★ 2.0
LetterWe are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.William Tecumseh Sherman1864★ 1.9
LetterWar is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.William Tecumseh Sherman1864★ 1.9
LetterHuman life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.Gustave Flaubert1864★ 1.9
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.John Henry Newman1864★ 1.9
EssayAll books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.John Ruskin1864★ 1.9
NovelA desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.Anthony Trollope1864★ 1.8
LectureThese times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo Emerson1864★ 1.2
Personal journalOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.Nathaniel Hawthorne1864★ 1.1
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.John RuskinSesame and Lilies · 1864★ 1.0
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