Explore 1787 quotes from the 19th century

Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 45.

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette, edited by Helen Cooper. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 36.

Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted in "The People with the Governing Power," Conversations with Lincoln by Charles M. Segal. G. P. Putman's Sons, 1961.

Darwin, Charles. "To J. D. Hooker, 12 July 1870." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 18: 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 7273.

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, edited by Carl F. Hovde and William L. Howarth, and Elizabeth Hall Witherell. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 39.

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.