Date: 1845
"Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1854
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1892
"Remorse is cureless,—the disease / Not even God can heal; / For 't is his institution,-- / The complement of hell."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)