Date: 1791

"The analogy between body and mind is very general, and the parallel will hold as to their food, as well as any other particular."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"That his own diseased imagination should have so far deceived him, is strange; but it is stranger still that some of his friends should have given credit to his groundless opinion, when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally fallacious; though it is by no means surprising that those ...

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"It seems as if his mind had ceased to struggle with the disease; for he grows fat upon it."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"No, Sir; violent pain of mind, like violent pain of body, must be severely felt."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"But, enough of this subject; for your angry voice at Ashbourne upon it, still sounds aweful 'in my mind's ears.'"

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: January 19, 1791

"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

Date: February 1791

"The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it."

— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

Date: 1791

"Johnson was much attached to London: he observed, that a man stored his mind better there, than any where else; and that in remote situations a man's body might be feasted, but his mind was starved, and his faculties apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

Date: 1791

"The mind, like the body, he observed, delighted in change and novelty, and even in religion itself, courted new appearances and modifications."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)