Date: 1765

"A Man's House may be so fill'd with Furniture, that he shall want Room to stir; and a Man's Head may be so stuff'd with other People's Thoughts, that his own shall be stifled."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Fancy and Wisdom seldom go together, nor are the Fruits of the same Soil or Season."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Never make a Friend on a sudden, for though the first Affection makes the deepest Impression, yet that Love is held most permanent which dives into the Soul by soft Degrees of mutual Society, and comes to be matured by Time."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Youth is a continual Drunkenness; 'tis the Fever of Reason."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a human Soul."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"The Defects of the Mind, like those of the Face, grow worse as we grow old."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Use makes every Posture familiar to the Body, and every Opinion to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"A good Grace is to the Body what good Sense is to the Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"Education is to the Mind what Cleanliness is to the Body; the Beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemish'd, if not totally lost by Neglect."

— Anonymous

Date: 1765

"And as the richest Diamond cannot shoot forth its Lustre, wanting the Lapidary's Skill; so will the latent Virtues of the noblest Mind be bury'd in Obscurity if not call'd forth by Precept, and the Rules of good Manners."

— Anonymous