Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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 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 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 RichardsonA man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Samuel Richardson