Quotes from authors born in 1780
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
John Hickenlooper 
Tom Seaver 
Peter Gallagher 
Jean de La Fontaine 
Ville Valo 
Peter Handke 
Bill Murray 
Vartan Gregorian