Date: 1790
"All the splendour of the highest prosperity can never enlighten the gloom with which so dreadful an idea must necessarily over-shadow the imagination; nor, in a wise and virtuous man, can all the sorrow of the most afflicting adversity ever dry up the joy which necessarily springs from the habit...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"The cistern contains: the fountain overflows / One thought, fills immensity."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: December 1790
"These lively conjectures are the breezes that preserve the still lake from stagnating"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791
"Yes; Burke is an extraordinary man. His stream of mind is perpetual."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"As in filling a vessel drop by dy drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. "
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"I cannot allow any fragment whatever that floats in my memory concerning the great subject of this work to be lost."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: February 1792
"It appears as if the tide of mental faculties flowed as far as it could in certain channels, and then forsook its course, and arose in others. How irrational then is the hereditary system, which establishes channels of power, in company with which wisdom refuses to flow!"
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1792
"In this pause of intellect; this deliquium of the soul, an enthusiastic sensation of pleasure overspreads it, previous to any examination by the rules of art."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"The leading ideas must be fixed on the spot: if left to the memory, they soon evaporate."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)