"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

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