Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"O, my Sister, I would to Heaven that he had now been present, as I have been present, to have his Soul melted and minted as mine has been"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"[H]is Heart must have been harder than the Stones of Thebes, if you did not attract it and move it, at pleasure, by the Touch of those Fingers and the Bewitchment of those Accents"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"I was melted down and minted anew, as it were, by the unaffected Warmth and Innocence of your Caresses"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"But I see another Law in my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin, which is in my Members."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"And, indeed, as the Apostle writes, those, who never learned his Law, yet, having his Law, or rather Himself, in their Hearts, shall be justified"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"[A]ll Laws that were ever framed for the good Government of Men (even with the divine Decalogue) are no other than faint Transcripts of that eternal Law of Benevolence, which was written and again retraced in the Bosom of the first Man"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men" in Romans, chapter 2: "Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature th...

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"And, from this Confinement of every Part to the Rule of Right Reason, the great Law of Liberty to All ariseth."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"She had, opportunely, laid hold of the Season for making the Impression she desired; as my Mind was still affected and softened by the late Adventure"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

Characters are not impressed on the countenance independent of the characters in the mind because that would "overthrow the whole System of Physiognomists" and becuase "it would overthrow the Opinion of Socrates himself, who allowed that his Countenance had received such Impressions from t...

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)