The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel RichardsonI never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Samuel RichardsonIt is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
Samuel RichardsonThat dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
Samuel Richardson