Date: 1765

"What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a human Soul."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"The Defects of the Mind, like those of the Face, grow worse as we grow old."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"A good Grace is to the Body what good Sense is to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Education is to the Mind what Cleanliness is to the Body; the Beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemish'd, if not totally lost by Neglect."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"And as the richest Diamond cannot shoot forth its Lustre, wanting the Lapidary's Skill; so will the latent Virtues of the noblest Mind be bury'd in Obscurity if not call'd forth by Precept, and the Rules of good Manners."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Imagination is a Ray of Divinity, the Senses contribute nothing to its Operation; it does all, has all within itself, nor can even Reason either add or diminish its Power."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"As Virtue, says Plato, is the Health of a strong and vigorous Mind, so Vice is the Disease of weak and imperfect one; and 'tis the Habitude which renders either of a Piece with the Soul, and becomes a kind of second Nature."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Human Reason is a Tincture, infus'd, in a Proportion almost equal, into all our Opinions and Customs of what Form soever they be."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"I am apt to think that as Plants are choak'd with too much Moisture, and Lamps with too much Oil; so it happens to the Mind of Man, when it is embarass'd with too much Study and Matter; for being confounded with a great Variety of Things, it loses the Power of extricating itself, and so is rende...

— Anonymous