The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.