The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel RichardsonThat cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
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 Richardson