Date: December 1790

"Perhaps the most improving exercise of the mind, confining the argument to the enlargement of the understanding, is the restless enquiries that hover on the boundary, or stretch over the dark abyss of uncertainty."

— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

Date: 1792

"Yet disappointed as we are, in our researches, the mind gains strength by the exercise, sufficient, perhaps, to comprehend the answers which, in another step of existence, it may receive to the anxious questions it asked, when the understanding with feeble wing was fluttering round the visible e...

— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

Date: 1792

"Yet, when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination."

— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

Date: 1796

"Her form and her mind were of equal elasticity."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1796

"The form and the mind of Lavinia were in the most perfect harmony."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1796

"How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1796

"I shall paint your meeting in my 'mind's eye,' see you again restored to the sunshine of her fondness, and while away my solitary languor with reveries far more soothing than any that I have yet experienced at Belfont."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1796

"An idea of any active service invigorates the body as well as the mind."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)