Date: 1790

"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

Date: 1790

"Shining parts, like the bright colourings of porcelain, or the lustres of glass in a well furnished house, are beautiful decorations and striking ornaments; but good sense, like the solid service of plate, is alone substantial and intrinsically valuable."

— Moore, Charles (fl. 1785-90)

Date: 1790

"That the countenance is an index of the mind, he has here fully shewn; honesty being pictured in the countenance of the accused, and villainy in that of his accusers."

— Trusler, John (1735-1820)

Date: 1790

"This passion, like a snow-ball, will gather as it rolls, and gain strength by age."

— Trusler, John (1735-1820)

Date: 1790

"Vain are a man's titles--vain his wealth--vain his pursuits of pleasure--the guilty mind has no enjoyment--neither rank nor riches can steel the breast against the stings of conscience."

— Trusler, John (1735-1820)

Date: 1790

"True happiness is seated in the mind, and within every one's reach If our fortune is not adequate to our wishes, let us confine our wishes to our fortune."

— Trusler, John (1735-1820)

Date: 1790

"'A CLOSE mouth,' says Solomon, 'makes a wise head' and 'a fool's bolt is soon shot,' implying, that prating and tattling is the index of a weak mind."

— Trusler, John (1735-1820)

Date: 1791

"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

Date: 1792

Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

Date: 1792

"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)