Quotes from authors born in 1834
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
Dmitri Mendeleev
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton
Gracie Allen 
James McHenry 
Izaak Walton 
Thomas Wolfe 
Hans Christian Andersen 
Abbey Lincoln 
Jill Eikenberry 
Simon Le Bon