Date: 1868

"O make me free within / From pride, and passion's chain, / My spirit by Thy bonds release, / And bid me go in perfect peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"A sinner's heart by lust possess'd, / Of birds unclean the loathsome nest, / Of fiends the dark abode; / A stinking sepulchre it lies, / While the poor wretch with horror flies / The sight of man and God."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1869

One's immortal deeds may be "Engrav'd ... / On ev'ry heart in this braid land"

— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)

Date: 1869

On a tree's "fair stem were mony names, which now nae mair I see, / But they're engraven on my heart--forgot they ne'er can be!"

— Oliphant, Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766-1845)

Date: 1869

"His mind resembled chiefly the rugged and outstanding mountain, and yet it had characteristics which reminded you likewise of the gentle stream, flowing sweetly through the valley below."

— Sprague, William Buell (1795-1876)

Date: 1869

"But, in that case, all that has been done in the modern world to relax the chain on the minds of women, has been a mistake."

— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)

Date: October 10, 1869

"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."

— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)

Date: 1870

"All her loveliness / Is Beauty's reflex, when she mirror proves / To man's o'erruling mind, whose powër moves / Upon her aspect,"

— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)

Date: 1870

One may be "An honest earnest soul sincere, / An independent spirit true, / Whose mind was as a mirror clear, / And from the world no shadow knew"

— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)

Date: April 26 1870

"The cloud's not danced out of my brain,— / The cloud that made it turn and swim / While hour by hour the books grew dim."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)