Quotes from authors passed in 1864
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Gene Roddenberry 
Megawati Sukarnoputri 
Edward Blake 
Patrick Henry 
Denzel Washington 
Seth Low 
Joshua Slocum 
Louie Gohmert