The mind of a good man doth not alter, even when he is in distress; the waters of the ocean are not to be heated by a torch of straw. Hitopadesa.
The mind of man is no inert receptacle of knowledge, but absorbs and incorporates into its own constitution the ideas which it receives. H. Lecky.
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. Pascal.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every 25 passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Bulwer Lytton.
The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. Emerson.
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more the stronger light there is shed upon them. Moore.
The mind's the standard of the man. Watts.
The miracles which Christ and His disciples wrought were the scaffolding, not the building. The scaffolding is removed as soon as the building is finished. Lessing.
The miser is as much in want of that which he 30 has as of that which he has not. Pub. Syr.
The miser is niggardly in death; two glances he casts on his coffin and a thousand with dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures. Gellert.