Quotes from authors passed in 1841
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
William Henry Harrison
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
Rita Wilson 
Ralph Chaplin 
Geoffrey Holder 
Jack Lemon 
Bill Maher 
Vanessa Carlton 
Georg Simmel 
Bette Midler