"Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species."

"Whoever has received from the divine bounty a large share of temporal blessings, whether they be external and material, or gifts of the mind, has received them for the purpose of using them for the perfecting of his own nature, and, at the same time, that he may employ them, as the steward of God's providence, for the benefit of others."

"La gravité est un mystère du corps inventé pour cacher les défauts de l'esprit."

"Stern men with empires in their brains."

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora cæca!"

"Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora cæcæ, Noctis habent."

"Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon Mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the Power And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind. . . . . . . That a man's mind is wont to tell him more Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower."

"Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus."

"Quæ lædunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum."

"And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind."

"Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat."

"Whose little body lodged a mighty mind."

"A faultless body and a blameless mind."

"Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque prægravat una Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ."

"The glory of a firm capacious mind."

"Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind."

"A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow."

"The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones."

"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered."

"Lumen siccum optima anima."

"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."

"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."

"As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find."

"Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins."

"Nature's first great title—mind."

"My mynde to me a kingdome is Such preasent joyes therein I fynde That it excells all other blisse That earth afforde or growes by kynde Though muche I wante which moste would have Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave."

"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."

"His mind his kingdom, and his will his law."

"My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse That God or Nature hath assignde Though much I want that most would have Yet still my minde forbids to crave."

"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."

"Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus."

"Frons est animi janua."

"Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind."

"Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis."

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"In anime perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest."

"God is Mind, and God is all; hence all is Mind."

"I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind."

"The material particle or the conscious mind—has been discovered not to be sufficiently unchanging to be treated as a thing in isolation... but more often to be the opposite: a changing system in a changing environment."

"I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."

"No scientist has yet provided an acceptable definition of "mind" or "mental" that reveals the character of "unconscious mental processes," and no physicist a lucid definition of "elementary particles" that shows how they can appear or disappear, and why there are so many."

"That last infirmity of noble mind."

"Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality."

"The marvelous collection of forces which appear to control matter, if not actually to constitute it, are and must be mind products."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth—in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world—have not any subsistence without a mind."