Quotes from authors born in 1823
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean Henri Fabre
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Chesnut
Mike Shinoda 
Alex Haley 
Richard Hell 
Pliny the Elder 
Vanessa Carlton 
James Madison 
Artie Shaw 
Lois McMaster Bujold