Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. – Samuel Richardson

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. – Samuel Richardson
A widows refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. – Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson
Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry