Date: 1790
"The judgments of the man within the breast, however, might be a good deal affected by those reasonings, and that great inmate might be taught by them to attempt to overawe all our private, partial, and selfish affections into a more or less perfect tranquillity."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1791
"His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives then b...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: January, 1888
"So that the little people who manage man's internal theatre had not as yet received a very rigorous training; and played upon their stage like children who should have slipped into the house and found it empty, rather than like drilled actors performing a set piece to a huge hall of faces."
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: January, 1888
"For myself--what I call I, my conscious ego, the denizen of the pineal gland unless he has changed his residence since Descartes, the man with the conscience and the variable bank-account, the man with the hat and the boots, and the privilege of voting and not carrying his candidate at the gener...
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: February 7, 2017
"This question just made my brain pixelate, and now the inside of my head's a roaring celebration."
preview | full record— Smith, Ali (b. August 24, 1962)