Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.