Quotes from authors born in 1810
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose
Dwight Gooden 
Joan Allen 
Dick Francis 
Harvey Fierstein 
Susan Blackmore 
Hugh Dancy 
Havelock Ellis 
Robert Bloomfield