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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach read more
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The march of the human mind is slow.
A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an read more
A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an expressive frame of mind.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
