Date: 1818
"My dear Eleanor, the riot is only in your own brain."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1860
"Here, then, was a secret of life that would enable her to renounce all other secrets - here was a sublime height to be reached without the help of outward things - here was insight, and strength, and conquest, to be won by means entirely within her own soul, where a supreme teacher was waiting t...
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)