Date: 1777
"Good sense has not so piercing an eye, but it has as clear a sight: it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far as it does see, it discerns distinctly."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1786
"'Solitude,' added he one day, 'is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of s...
preview | full record— Piozzi, [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale] Hester Lynch (1741-1821)