Samuel Richardson

• "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.“
• "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.“
• "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.“
• "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.“
• "Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.“
• "A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.“
• "Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.“
• "From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.“
• "Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.“
• "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.“
• "Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.“
• "Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.“
• "Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.“
• "Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.“
• "Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.“
• "O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!“
• "Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.“
• "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.“
• "The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.“
• "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.“
• "Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.“
• "Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.“
• "Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.“
• "Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.“
• "The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.“
• "From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.“

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