Explore 262 quotes from the 1850s

Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems. Library of America, 2004.

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 4.

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 6.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Tolstoy, Leo. "Sevastopol in May." The Cossacks and Other Stories, translated by David McDuff and Paul Foote. Penguin Books, 2006.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 22.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions. Library of America, 2011, sect. 8.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 2, ch. 13.

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

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

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 3, ch. 15.

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 58.

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