Samuel Richardson Quotes about Children

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Pain, Children, Women

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.192

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

Samuel Richardson

Children, Punishment, Shame

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Samuel Richardson

Children, Advice, Parent

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Samuel Richardson

Children, Anger, Prudent

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.229

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

Children, Educational, Would Be

Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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

Children, Parent, World

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.354

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

Happiness, Children, Men

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.27

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

Samuel Richardson

Sports, Children, Play

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Samuel Richardson

Children, Maturity, Animal

Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint