Quotes from authors passed in 1870
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens
Wole Soyinka 
Hal Price 
Henry A. Wise 
Juliana Hatfield 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 
Jay Presson Allen 
Herbert Baxter Adams 
Michael Strahan