Quotes from authors born in 1813
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
Richard Wagner
Shelley Berkley 
Clement Atlee 
John Baldacci 
William Henry Moody 
Claude Monet 
Matt Sharp 
Camille Claudel 
Elie Wiesel