Samuel Richardson Quotes - Page 6

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

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

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

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

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

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

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

Good men must be affectionate men.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

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

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

...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!

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

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.