The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. – Samuel Richardson
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. – Samuel Richardson
A widows refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. – Samuel Richardson
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954