Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"For when his Mind once tasted Wisdom's treat, / Her luscious liquors, and pure mental meat, / His Spirit, raptur'd o'er the rich repast, / Soon shrunk to learn life must so shortly last!"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: August 31, 1837
"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)