Date: 1795, 1796

The "anvil of gnawing conscience is never cool"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1795, 1796

The "contemplative hour must sometimes exist to a mind of your stamp"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1795, 1796

"Let this mark of elasticity of mind be stamped on the annals of truth"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1795, 1796

"Do not stamp upon your heart a calumny which it does not deserve"

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1795, 1796

"But, hear, Louisa--a thought, just now, vast and immense as my own boundless passion, crowds on my troubled mind."

— Timaeus, J. J. (1763-1809); Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: w. October, 1796; 1810

"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1796

"What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit."

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1796

"Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments."

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1796

"Mind and body are both subdued by affliction and chains; their heads are fixed between great wooden forks, supported behind with iron cramps; not one can stir a step without the other; all walk in procession panting under the heavy fork."

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Date: 1796

"Fetters are needless where the affections are rivetted by beneficent actions. Thou hast left me free, and I am thy slave for ever; with my arms in bonds, I could have escaped, but thou fetterest my heart—I will never forsake thee!"

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)