Autobiography and memoir · Travel writingWe are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.Robert Louis Stevenson1879★ 6.9
NovelIf you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov · 1879★ 6.4
NovelSo long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers Karamazov · 1879★ 5.6
Scientific literatureWhen the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, or when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species · 1879★ 5.5
SpeechIf you tie up a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.Chief Joseph1879★ 4.4
EssayBlessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.George Eliot1879★ 3.7
Inequality...has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalising our lower class.Matthew ArnoldEquality · 1879★ 3.5
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.Henry George1879★ 3.5
LetterTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.Charles Darwin1879★ 2.1
Historical literatureGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.Ellice Hopkins1879★ 1.9
Travel writingFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.Robert Louis Stevenson1879★ 1.1
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