Samuel Richardson
  • From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

  • Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

  • 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.

  • Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

  • Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.