Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"My spirit is tossed with a thousand tormenting things, and my thoughts destroy one another the same moment they are conceived, to make way for more; and so long as my body suffers by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold paper, or a reed to write."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1692, 1724
"I shall have made the Conquest of his Heart before ever my Rival can be able to come and dispute it with me."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
Date: 1761
"The image of Eloisa, never to be erased from my mind, shall be my shield, and render my soul invulnerable."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)