Date: November 19, 1793

"When awake many fortuitous circumstances may happen to perplex and discompose us; but when the body is laid asleep, and the mind disencumbered of its load, we think and act with additional force--nothing then obstructs our activity or retards our promised bliss."

— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)

Date: 1795

"Thus let it stamp upon my heart a son's obedience; and to oblivion give each hostile thought!"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1796

"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1807

"I took the man of my heart, proudly spurning those alliances, where all is fairly engrossed, but the affections, and every thing duly stampt, except an impression on the heart"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1807

"Father, why gird my poor brain with hoops of iron? In mercy loose them. Ah! now I'm free"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1820

"Good bye, I wish you a wiser master--a jailor' heart should be like you--iron."

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)