Samuel Richardson

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.”

“Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.”

“Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!”

“Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.”

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

“Nothing dries sooner than tears.”

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

“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”