Date: 1746

Passions may rule the breast so that one "prevails and lords it o'er the rest"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The passions of the soul may be awakened

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The Sisters "Silence, and Contemplation" may "with eternal beauties deck the mind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The mind may be tainted with sin

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Books, not well digested, blot the mind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"So books, not well digested, blot the mind, / But make us - in search of wisdom - blind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Too many books, "like too much wine - intoxicate the brain"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Man, in a storm of passions daily whirl'd, / Lives but the jest, and riddle of the world."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"To true happiness the NOUS is blind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As river's, by the sun's imbibing ray, / Are in summer quite exhal'd away" so to are "passions when confin'd to selfish love"

— Ruffhead, James