Samuel Richardson

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally…

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to…

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are…

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly…

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing…

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their…

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay…

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a…

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in…

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages…

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating…

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will…

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers…

A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope…

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