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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
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.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
Nothing comes to mind without thinking!
Nothing comes to mind without thinking!
How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest read more
How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful read more
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi read more
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
