--POPE.
It is the mind that makes the body rich.--SHAKESPEARE.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but
cannot receive great ones.--CHESTERFIELD.
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measur'd by my soul:
The mind's the standard of the man.
--DR. WATTS.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
--MILTON.
The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is,
that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of
giving wholesome employment to others.
He that has treasures of his own
May leave the cottage or the throne,
May quit the globe, and dwell alone
Within his spacious mind.
--DR. WATTS.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows
corrupt.--ROUSSEAU.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated
by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect
of distant good.--SCHILLER.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.--BOVEE.
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of
intelligence must direct the man of labor.--DR. JOHNSON.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without
culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good
fruit.
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