Quotes by Henry Brooke

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

For righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.