Quotes from authors passed in 1899
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
Ozzie Smith 
Erik Satie 
Stephen Cambone 
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi 
Ruth Rendell 
Lionel Jospin 
George Ade 
Andre Derain