Date: 1772

" Thy Patriot worth above all Art, / Shall live, engraven on the Heart"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1775

A fellow may be forgotten--illiterated from the memory

— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)

Date: 1776

"We all help to engrave our misfortunes on our hearts, by bearing them constantly in mind, and recurring back to them daily, as if we were incapable of turning our thoughts to any other subject."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"No words will ever be able to express my feelings, nor no time to erase them from my heart."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"She has not yet recovered the vivacity she possessed before her attachment to Captain Williams; but time, they say, can conquer every thing, and will, I trust, erase the memory of that disagreeable event from her mind."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"I needed not to read it, the words were but too deeply engraved upon my heart."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1767, 1778

A "sacred legacy with time shall last" and "On thankful hearts engrav'd, what thou hast done"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1792 [1794]

"If female minds are uninform'd and blank, / Whom, lordly sirs! are female tongues to thank?"

— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Date: 1794

"The mind is not a rasa tabula, though, at the same time, it must be allowed, we gain no actual knowledge of the latent ideas which it possesses, but as they are awakened by reflection and experience."

— Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)

Date: 1794

"The rasa tabula will not allow us to have mental ideas."

— Sullivan, Richard Joseph, Sir (1752-1806)