Date: 1766-1769, 1956

"Formerly my mind was quite a lodging-house for all ideas who chose to put up there, so that it was at the mercy of accident, for I had no fixed mind of my own. Now my mind is a house where, though the street rooms and the upper floors are open to strangers, yet there is always a settled family i...

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1766-1769, 1956

"Only this more. The ideas--my lodgers--are of all sorts. Some, gentlemen of the law, who pay me a great deal more than others. Divines of all sorts have been with me, and have ever disturbed me. When I first took up house, Presbyterian ministers used to make me melancholy with dreary tones. Meth...

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1766-1769, 1956

"This family! this landlord, let me say, or this landlady, as the mind and the soul are both she. I shall confuse myself with metaphor. Let me then have done with it."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: September, 1766

"Deliver me, gracious Lord from the bondage of doubt and from all evil customs, and take not from me thy Holy Spirit, but enable me so to spend my remaining days, that by performing thy will I may promote thy glory, and grant that after the troubles and disappointments of this mortal state I may ...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1767

"Stamp the pardon on our hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"And stamps Thine image on our hearts / In purity and love"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"And stamp Thine image on their hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"Our pardon infallibly seal, / And heaven implant in our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"And sure forgiveness sealest / On all our waiting hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"The promise and the prayer is seal'd, / Seal'd on her heart in gospel-peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles