1869

War and Peace · 1869

★ 6.4

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 5.7

Beauty will save the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot · 1869

★ 5.6

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words-that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 5.5

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1869

★ 5.3

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

George Sand

1869

★ 4.5

So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 4.5

By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 4.0

Travel writing

Necessity knows no law.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 4.0

In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself.

The greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

Ulysses S. Grant

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant · 1869

★ 3.9

Travel writing

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant · 1869

★ 3.8

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.7

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.7

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

1869

★ 3.7

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.6

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.6

The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.

He is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.6

Artemus Ward

1869

★ 3.6

Personal journal

All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

1869

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

Salmon Portland Chase

Texas v. White · 1869

★ 3.5

Historical literature

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation... Surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

William E.H. Lecky

1869

★ 3.5

Historical literature

It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

William E.H. Lecky

History of European Morals · 1869

★ 2.6

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Join the union, girls, and together say, "Equal Pay for Equal Work!"

War and Peace · 1869

★ 2.2

Newspaper

Susan B. Anthony

1869

★ 2.2

Naturalness and ease of manner-a product of sophistication which the gullible interpret as a sign of instant affinity.

Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education · 1869

★ 2.0

The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

I would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own. If others depart from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent.

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Ulysses S. Grant

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant · 1869

★ 2.0

To please women you either have to be carefree and play the fool or else be tragic and passionate. When you say to them quite simply that you love them, women laugh at you.

Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education · 1869

★ 1.9

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.