Quotes from authors born in 1796
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
William Banting
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
Thomas Bulfinch
Al Sharpton 
Cuba Gooding, Jr. 
Camillo di Cavour 
George Peppard 
Antonio Gaudi 
Otto Dix 
Keith Emerson 
Eric Holder