Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
Samuel RichardsonTis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
Samuel RichardsonWomen are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
Samuel Richardson