Quotes from authors born in 1855
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Marie Corelli
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
Josiah Royce
Adela Florence Nicolson 
Lee Van Cleef 
Bill Bruford 
Devon Aoki 
Queen Latifah 
Lajos Kossuth 
Gavin Bryars 
John Sutter