Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)