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Date: 1736

"Here I had an Opportunity of observing how little the Toils of the Body are to be held in competition with those of the Mind."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1753

"We often see that to reverse this boasted constancy is the work of but a single minute,--and then in vain their past professions recoil upon their minds;--in vain the idea of the forsaken fair haunts them in nightly visions."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.