Date: 1782

"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1799

"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"

— Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)

Date: 1805?

One may hold "fearful council" with his breast

— Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

Date: 1805?

Holding council in the breast is like the "regal bee" consulting before calling forth the "warlike train" "from their waxen cells"

— Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

Date: 1817

"When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit, / And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; / Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, / And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1817

"When by my solitary hearth I sit, / And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: December 18, 1979

"The mind is like a parachute. It must be opened in order to work."

— Endicott, William