Quotes from authors born in 1817
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass
Richard Ben-Veniste 
Tom Osborne 
Heather Graham 
Rob Corddry 
Leo Durocher 
Angie Dickinson 
Raul Grijalva 
Alec Baldwin