Date: 1793

"If, with the 'mind's eye,' she had a taste to travel through distant kingdoms and take a retrospective view of past events, she might nourish that fondness for variety so predominant with human nature, and in the indulgence of this disposition be happy."

— Anonymous [By an American Lady]

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)