Quotes By Samuel Richardson
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Samuel Richardson
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
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
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
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
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
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson