Date: December 14, 1770; 1771
"The mind requires nourishment adapted to its growth; and what may have promoted our earlier efforts, might retard us in our nearer approaches to perfection."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1774
"Many people lose a great deal of time by reading: for they read frivolous and idle books, such as the absurd romances of the two last centuries; where characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed, and sentiments that were never felt, pompously described: the Oriental ravings and extra...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: December 10, 1776; 1777
"The natural appetite or taste of the human mind is for Truth; whether that truth results from the real agreement or equality of original ideas among themselves; from the agreement of the representation of any object with the thing represented; or from the correspondence of the several parts of a...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1781
"The mother loveth her little child; she bringeth it up on her knees; she nourisheth its body with food; she feedeth its mind with knowledge."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: December 10, 1784; 1785
"The daily food and nourishment of the mind of an Artist is found in the great works of his predecessors."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: 1790
"A contented mind is a continual feast."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: December 1790
"A few fundamental truths meet the first enquiry of reason, and appear as clear to an unwarped mind, as that air and bread are necessary to enable the body to fulfil its vital functions; but the opinions which men discuss with so much heat must be simplified and brought back to first principles; ...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1793
"A few pages of interesting anecdotes, afford ample food for the mind."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)