Date: 1810

"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1814

A "ripening mind" may be "fitted for a throne"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1817

"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1817

With "attentive hand" the "Luxuriance" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1817

"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1862

"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"

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

Date: April 26 1870

"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Date: 1891

"So those high orthodoxies came to be / Quick seeds in me of heterodox opinion, / And, ere I wist, my thoughts were all at sea, / And drifted, holden by no wise dominion."

— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)