Date: 1778

"Education, and good company are necesary to polish the mind----but can any education, or any company, convey a fine understanding, where it has not been given by nature?"

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"It is by possession of this power, that the mind holds its empire----foor when this power is lost, we are said to be out of our senses--and then our acts can neither be good nor evil"

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"I should have hoped that a man of his knowledge--and who has studied in the manner he [Dr. Blair] must have done--(being a professor of the Belles Lettres,) might have emancipated his mind from the shackles of system."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"We can earnestly endeavour to avoid evil, only by a uniform disposition to combat our appetites and passions."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"Unless the ruling propensity of the mind be habitually resisted, and generally with effect, our charity, and all those good dispositions which we possess by nature, will have no weight in recommending us to God."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1779

"Hope delayed fatigues the mind, / And drinks the spirits up"

— Newton, John (1725-1807)

Date: 1781

"What becomes of the old furniture when the new is continually introduced? In what hidden cells are these solid ideas lodged, that they may be produced again in good repair when wanted to fill the apartments of memory?"

— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)

Date: 1781

"Ideas of sense are but the first elements of thought: and the produce raised from these elements by the operation of the mind upon them is as far superiour to the elements themselves in variety, copiousness and use, as books are to the characters of which they are composed."

— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)

Date: 1781

"So that all material objects, in themselves, and to each other, are dark and naked: to the mind alone are they cloathed in all the pleasing variety of sensible qualities."

— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)

Date: 1781

"Mind, like a bride from a nobler family, enriches matter by its union, and brings as a dower, possessions before unknown. Henceforth matter appears cloathed in a gayer and richer garment; and the fruits of this union are a new progeny, to which matter, confining its alliance to its own family, c...

— Rotheram, John (1725–1789)