30 Quotes By Samuel Richardson


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 on education

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Samuel Richardson on education

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson on food

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.
Samuel Richardson on friendship

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 on future

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson on great

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 on happiness

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson on hope

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson on hope

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson on humor

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

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Samuel Richardson on learning

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.
Samuel Richardson on marriage

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

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson on marriage

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson on men

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson on nature

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 on power

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson on power

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson on science