When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
Samuel RichardsonFor the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel RichardsonOf what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
Samuel Richardson