For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. – Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. – Samuel Richardson
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. – Samuel Richardson
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. – Samuel Richardson