Date: 1848

"It is often obscure, often half-told; for he who wrote it, in his clear seeing of the things beneath, may have been impatient of detailed interpretations; for if we choose to dwell upon it and trace it, it will lead us always securely back to that metropolis of the soul’s dominion from which we ...

— Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

Date: 1850

"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1858

"His faculties were so well balanced and combined, that his constitution, free from excess, was tempered evenly with all the elements of activity, and his mind resembled a well-ordered commonwealth."

— Bancroft, George (1800-1891)

Date: 1862

"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1862

"Through all our proceedings let reason bear rule"

— Mather, Joseph (1737-1804)

Date: 1868

"When Satan rules the simple heart / Jesus alone can drive him thence."

— Wesley, John and Charles