Quotes By 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.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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

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.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

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.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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

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

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

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.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.