The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yield… — Frances Burney

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. — Albert Einstein
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. — Frances Burney
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. — Frances Burney
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. — Frances Burney