Quotes from authors born in 1775
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.
Georg Hermes
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
J. M. W. Turner
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
Dennis Weaver 
Jacques Santer 
Cliff Stearns 
Helen Hunt 
Stephan Jenkins 
Mahalia Jackson 
Sherrod Brown 
Mike Krzyzewski