Date: 1710

"It must be such and such an understanding, as when we say, for instance, 'such or such a face', since nature has characterized tempers and minds as peculiarly as faces."

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1710

"It must be seen from what bottom they speak, from what principle, what stock or fund of knowledge they draw, and what kind or species of understanding they possess."

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1710

"For the understanding here must have its mark, its characteristic note, by which it may be distinguished."

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1710

"He should set afoot the powerfullest faculties of his mind, and assemble the best forces of his wit and judgment, in order to make a formal descent on the territories of the heart; resolving to decline no combat, nor hearken to any terms, till he had pierced into its inmost provinces and reached...

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1913

"But there was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass."

— Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

Date: 1756, 1766

"I will love thee therefore, O Lord, my strength; yea, I will love thee: and it ever shall be my heart's desire, that my soul may behold by faith in its self, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, able and ready to change it into the same image from glory to glory, reflected upon, and conveyed to...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Then only you are qualified for life, when you are able to oppose your appetites, and bravely dare to call your opinions to account; when you have established judgment or reason as the ruler in your mind, and by a patience of thinking, and a power of resisting, before you choose, can bring your ...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"In the softest, sweetest voice, she expressed herself, and without the least appearance of labour, her ideas seemed to flow from a vast fountain"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Gold may invert the proper order of mind and body and produce "an apostasy that sets the inferior powers in the throne, and enslaves the mind to the body"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

We are "endued with an understanding which can acquire large moral dominion, and may ... sit as queen upon the throne over the whole corporeal system"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)