That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
Samuel RichardsonFriendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel RichardsonWould Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson