Explore 262 quotes from the 1850s

Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 3.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 24.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Notes for Speeches, c. September 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Genius and Temperament, 9 April 1861." The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843-1871, edited by Joel Myerson. Vol. 2, University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 41.

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 29.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Notes on the Practice of Law, 1850?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Barnum, P. T. Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum. Dover Publications, 2017, ch. 7.

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks. Quoted in Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer, written by Dexter C. Bloomer. Scholarly Press, 1975.