Explore 180 quotes from the 1880s

Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Tennyson, Alfred. "The Ancient Sage." Tennyson's Poetry, edited by Robert W. Hill, Jr. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, l. 68.

Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 43.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 6.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Ibsen, Henrik. "The Wild Duck." An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm, translated by James McFarlane. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

Twain, Mark. "On Adam." Mark Twain Speaking. University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.