Quotes from authors born in 1837
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
Abraham Kuyper
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
John Sevier 
Alexander Payne 
Lee Majors 
Yoweri Museveni 
Cleo Moore 
Martin Ritt 
Jude Law 
Karen Horney