Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1766
"Their insensibility excited my highest compassion, and blotted my own uneasiness a while from my mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)