Date: 1794
"I shuddered at the possibility of his having overheard the words of my soliloquy. But this idea, alarming as it was, had not the power immediately to suspend the career of my reflections"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1796
"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"
preview | full record— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)
Date: 1797-8, 1799
"Consciousness of an inner court in the human being ('before which his thoughts accuse or excuse one another') is conscience."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)