1881 · Skopia

Showing 25 quotes from 1881

1881

★ 7.3

A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Nothing will take its place. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb... Education will not; the country is full of unsuccessful educated men... There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

Theodore T. Munger

On the Threshold · 1881

★ 5.1

Essay · Sociology

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology · 1881

★ 4.3

Essay

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque · 1881

★ 3.8

Letter

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Charles Darwin

1881

★ 3.7

Novel

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard · 1881

★ 3.6

O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Craik

1881

★ 3.6

Speech

What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

1881

★ 3.6

Lecture

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

1881

★ 3.5

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

1881

★ 3.5

Novel

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard · 1881

★ 2.9

Play

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts · 1881

★ 2.8

Essay

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque · 1881

★ 2.1

Essay

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 2.0

Essay

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 2.0

Novel · Magazine

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

Henry James

The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine · 1881

★ 1.9

Essay

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 1.9

Essay

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881

★ 1.9

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