Quotes from authors born in 1817
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass
Robert Coover 
Mary Cassatt 
Bob Seger 
Alija Izetbegovic 
Czeslaw Milosz 
Jena Malone 
Jacky Ickx 
Elizabeth Wurtzel