Date: January 1739

"The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: January 1739

"Since the imagination, therefore, in running from low to high, finds an opposition in its internal qualities and principles, and since the soul, when elevated with joy and courage, in a manner seeks opposition, and throws itself with alacrity into any scene of thought or action where its courage...

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1744

"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Still unsubdued thy stubborn heart?--for there / The traitor lurks, who doubts the truth I sing."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"I'll introduce Lorenzo to himself: / Pleasure and Pride (bad masters) share our hearts."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"As Love of Pleasure is ordain'd to guard / And feed our bodies, and extend our race; / The Love of Praise is planted to protect / And propagate the glories of the mind."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Thirst of Applause is Virtue's second guard; / Reason her first; but Reason wants an aid; / Our private Reason is a flatterer; / Thirst of Applause calls Public Judgment in, / To poise our own, to keep an even scale, / And give endanger'd Virtue fairer play."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)