Date: 1814

Potent rulers of opinion may rule "the empire of the willing heart"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

Patriots of old saw "In the fair mirror of each mighty mind / Each other's worth and talent"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"The Critic, too, with wit and taste refined, / Holds up the mirror that reflects the mind;"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"[T]he soul's image to the view is brought / In the calm mirror of unruffled thought"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"Reason's powers, by studious care refined, / In moral graces dress the chasten'd mind."

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"Her steady lamp shall pour its guiding ray, / And shed on lowliest minds celestial day."

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"Death reveals his bright associate Truth,/ (Whose rays the new-departed soul illume, / Like those eternal lamps that light the tomb,)"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

"The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with."

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Date: 1814

"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Date: 1814

"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)