Date: 1777, 1780
"[T]he name of Sir Philip Harclay shall be engraven upon my heart, next to my Lord and his family, for ever"
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"You are much deceived; you have been reading your own mind, and thought you had read his."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Else would I tell you that more sacred than my life will I hold what I have heard, that the words just now graven on my heart, shall remain there to eternity unseen."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"[A]cquainted ere you meet that you were to meet him no more, your heart would be all softness and grief, and at the very moment when tenderness should be banished from your intercourse, it would bear down all opposition of judgment, spirit, and dignity: you would hang upon every word, because ev...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1783
"If the human mind be a rasa tabula,--you to whom it is entrusted, should be cautious what is written upon it."
preview | full record— Fenn [née Frere], Ellenor (1744-1813)
Date: 1786
"Our minds are like blank paper, as a great philosopher has observed, and the first impressions they receive are generally the most permanent and powerful."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1787
"That frequently happens; and when once a false idea is impressed, it is very difficult to erase it, particularly at your age; as you are not yet capable of distinguishing the false from the true."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1787
"They converse not, they open not their mouths, they are silent, but they engrave their principles on the heart in indelible characters, instead of inconsistently crowding them on the memory."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1788
"'Father of Mercies, compose this troubled spirit: do I indeed wish it to be composed---to forget my Henry?' the 'my', the pen was directly drawn across in an agony."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"When Rochely got home, he set about examining the state of his heart exactly as he would have examined the check book of one of his customers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)