Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?"

— Matthew the Evangelist

Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things."

— Matthew the Evangelist

Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart."

— Matthew the Evangelist

Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies."

— Matthew the Evangelist

Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so."

— Matthew the Evangelist

Date: w. c. 70, trans. 1611

"And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other"

— Mark the Evangelist (d. 68)

Date: w. c. 70, trans. 1611

"For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened."

— Mark the Evangelist (d. 68)

Date: w. c. 70, trans. 1611

"Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?"

— Mark the Evangelist (d. 68)

Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."

— Luke the Evangelist (d. c. 84)

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)