1875 in History

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, 
And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Morituri Salutamus, 1875)

Let him not boast who puts his armor on
As he who puts it off, the battle done.
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel.
Not every blossom ripens into fruit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Morituri Salutamus, 1875)

For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Morituri Salutamus, 1875)

Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx (Critique of the Gotha Program, 1875)

Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold (God and the Bible, 1875)

Ulysses S. Grant

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant (State of the Union Address, 1875)

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant (Speech at Des Moines, Iowa, 1875)

Vincent van Gogh

If ... boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent van Gogh (Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1875)