Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
—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)