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.

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.]

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my read more

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Nature's first great title--mind.

Nature's first great title--mind.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In read more

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]

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.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.