Date: Saturday, Aug. 3, 1754; 1756
"It is justly remarked by Horace, that what is conveyed to our Notice through our Ears, acts with a more feeble Impulse upon the Mind, than Objects that pass through the Organs of Sight, those faithful Evidences in a mental Court of Judicature."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1596
"In this respect [conscience] may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: 1782
"In this view of the case perhaps that species of detraction, which a court of law will not denominate a libel, in a court of conscience and in the eye of Heaven shall amount to murder. I had almost forgot to add that Castillo was a poet."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1780-1?
"The inner judicial proceeding of conscience may be aptly compared with an external court of law."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: June 30, 2015
"I already feel too governed from the inside of my anxious heart, which doesn't make, as my grandmother certainly knew, the best choices."
preview | full record— Cobb, Michael L.