Quotes By Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

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

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

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.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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.

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

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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.

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.

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.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.