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)
Date: 1799
"The judge of our court of conscience is the noblest soul I ever knew"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)