Quotes from authors passed in 1850
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore De Balzac
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore De Balzac
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter
Raymond Queneau 
Brenda Lee 
Billy Crystal 
James Larkin 
Naomi Watts 
Ansel Adams 
Wendell Berry 
Raul Grijalva