LetterPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.Lord Acton1887★ 6.9
Philosophical literatureThe masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.Friedrich NietzscheGenealogy of Morals · 1887★ 5.5
Philosophical literatureThe broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."Friedrich NietzscheGenealogy of Morals · 1887★ 4.6
LetterAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain1887★ 3.8
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionIt is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 3.7
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionWhat the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 3.6
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionI get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 3.6
SermonEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher1887★ 3.6
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionDepend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 2.7
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionThere is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 2.0
That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley1887★ 1.9
NovelMoney is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.George Bernard Shaw1887★ 1.8
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionWhat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 1.2
Novel · Magazine · Detective fictionLondon, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet · 1887★ 1.2
PoemUnder the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.Robert Louis StevensonRequiem · 1887★ 1.0
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