Quotes from authors passed in 1840
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
Niccolo Paganini
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Frances Burney
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
Frances Burney
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
John Adair
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
Gerald Griffin
Elvis Costello 
Amy Ray 
John Goodman 
Diane Cilento 
Roy Blunt 
Gabriel Byrne 
Michael Servetus 
Gustav Heinemann