Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"The grand Instruments by which the Understanding works, are Memory and Invention: Now, since these Faculties have their foundation in the sensitive Capacity, as this Prop is withdrawn, the Understanding must of Consequence be more clouded and obscure."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: September 10, 1836
"And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried, the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1901-2, 1902
"It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)