Date: 1842

Fancy keeps a "glow-worm court, / Where wearied wishes all resort, / Who mixing in her tinsell'd train / Still keep their title light and vain"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

Date: September, 1843

"In Germany, everything is forcibly suppressed; a real anarchy of the mind, the reign of stupidity itself, prevails there, and Zurich obeys orders from Berlin."

— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

Date: 1848

"It is often obscure, often half-told; for he who wrote it, in his clear seeing of the things beneath, may have been impatient of detailed interpretations; for if we choose to dwell upon it and trace it, it will lead us always securely back to that metropolis of the soul’s dominion from which we ...

— Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

Date: 1850

"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1858

"His faculties were so well balanced and combined, that his constitution, free from excess, was tempered evenly with all the elements of activity, and his mind resembled a well-ordered commonwealth."

— Bancroft, George (1800-1891)

Date: 1862

"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)