Date: 1765

"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"A good Grace is to the Body what good Sense is to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Education is to the Mind what Cleanliness is to the Body; the Beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemish'd, if not totally lost by Neglect."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"As Virtue, says Plato, is the Health of a strong and vigorous Mind, so Vice is the Disease of weak and imperfect one; and 'tis the Habitude which renders either of a Piece with the Soul, and becomes a kind of second Nature."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"But when the Soul is stark blind in itself, Knowledge can be of no Use to direct it."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"So through their importunity I went back again, but not believing that I should be delivered: for I feared their spirit was too full of opposition to the truth to let me go, unless I should in something or other dishonour my God, and wound my conscience."

— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

Characters are not impressed on the countenance independent of the characters in the mind because that would "overthrow the whole System of Physiognomists" and becuase "it would overthrow the Opinion of Socrates himself, who allowed that his Countenance had received such Impressions from t...

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1766

"Physicians tell us of a disorder in which the whole body is so exquisitely sensible, that the slightest touch gives pain: what some have thus suffered in their persons, this gentleman felt in his mind."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1766

"Every tender epithet bestowed on her sister brought a pang to her heart and a tear to her eye; and as one vice, tho' cured, ever plants others where it has been, so her former guilt, tho' driven out by repentance, left jealousy and envy behind."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1766

"For Brag [a card game] most wisely was design'd, / To shew each pimple of the mind, / The faithful mirror of the heart, / Each lurking foible to impart."

— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)