Quotes from authors born in 1787
I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Richard Whately
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard Whately
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
Richard Whately
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Richard Whately
Ken Jennings 
Don Young 
Bill Halter 
Joshua A. Norton 
Andrei Sakharov 
Sid Meier 
C. S. Lewis 
Sanaa Lathan