Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)