Date: 1725

"The deep and dark Recesses of the Heart must be penetrated, to discover how Nature is disguis’d into Art, and how Art puts on the Appearance of Nature."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"The Mind has its peculiar Features as well as the Body; and these must be represented in their genuine and native Colours, that so the Picture may strike, and every Reader, who is concern’d in the Work, may presently discover himself; and those, who are unconcern’d may, nevertheless, immediately...

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"He must be a Master of the Science; and be able to lead a Reader, knowingly, thro’ that Labyrinth of the Passions, which fill the Heart of Man, and make him either a noble or a despicable Creature."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"The Features of every single Passion must be known; the Relation which that Passion bears to another, must be discover’d; and the Harmony and Discord which result from them must be felt."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"Each Man contains a little World within himself, and every Heart is a new World."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"The under Passions may, by their various Operations, cause some Diversity in the Colour and Complexion of the Whole, but 'tis the Master-Passion which must determine the Character."

— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)

Date: 1725

"Stoop to the Gen'rous, if you seek Controll; / Vertue will fix your Empire on his Soul"

— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)

Date: 1725

"When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees, But forms each Feature with the deepest Art, / And carves a lasting Image on the Heart."

— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)

Date: 1725

One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)