My heart and my hand shall never be separated. - Samuel Richardson

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Women must not encourage Fops and Fools. They must encourage Men of Sense only. And it is well said. But what will they do, if their lot be cast only among Foplings? If the Men of Sense do not offer themselves? And pray, may I not ask, if the taste of the age, among the men, is not Dress, Equipage, and Foppery? Is the cultivation of the mind any part of their study? The men, in short, are sunk, my dear; and the women but barely swim.

And yet all I have said is but from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?