Quotes from authors born in 1753
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Joseph de Maistre
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
Joseph de Maistre
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Joseph de Maistre
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Joseph de Maistre
Alice Roosevelt Longworth 
Richard Pombo 
Mariel Hemingway 
Stuart Townsend 
Lou Reed 
George Smathers 
Arthur Conan Doyle 
Brad Delson