Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: August 31, 1837
"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1851
"Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)