Date: April 26 1870
"Why, as a volume seldom read / Being opened halfway shuts again, / So might the pages of her brain / Be parted at such words, and thence / Close back upon the dusty sense."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: April, 1871
"Once acutely felt, I believe it is indelible; at least, it does something to the mind which it is hard for anything else to undo."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: w. before 1641, 1883
"[H]is face was the frontispice of his mind, hee knew not how to dissemble a thought."
preview | full record— Smyth, John (1567-1640)
Date: 1900
"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: November 22, 1990
"The nervous system adapts, is tailored, evolves, so that experience, will, sensibility, moral sense, and all that one would call personality or soul becomes engraved in the nervous system."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: 1992
"Even more important to David than the very natural worry that his wife and his son might grow fond of one another was the intoxicating feeling that he had a blank consciousness to work with, and it gave him great pleasure to knead this yielding clay with his artistic thumbs."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"He must get the whole thing clear, like a diagram hanging in the translucent space of his imagination, the blueprint of a missile that would lay waste to the Great Consciousness Debate."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)