Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)