More From Samuel Richardson
- "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
- "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
- "There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be."
More In Politics
- "When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."― M. H. Abrams
- "Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice."― Christopher Lasch
- "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."― Ambrose Bierce