The mind becomes bankrupt under too large obligations. All additional benefits lessen every hope of future returns, and bar up every avenue that leads to tenderness. Goldsmith.
The mind can make / Substance, and people planets of its own / With beings brighter than have been, and give / A breath to forms that can outlive all flesh. Byron.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joubert.
The mind content both crown and kingdom is. 15 Robert Greene.
The mind goes antagonising on, and never prospers but by fits. Emerson.
The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes, though they end as they begin by airy contemplation. Johnson.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. Goldsmith.
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton.
The mind must not yield to the body. Goethe. 20
The mind of a fool is empty; and everything is empty where there is poverty. Hitopadesa.