Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. — Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. — Samuel Richardson
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. — Samuel Richardson
The little words in the republic of letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. — Samuel Richardson
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. — Samuel Richardson
The world, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson
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. — Samuel Richardson
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. — Samuel Richardson
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. — Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike power is that of doing good! I envy the rich and the great for nothing else! — Samuel Richardson
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. — Samuel Richardson
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. — Samuel Richardson
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
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. — 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. — Samuel Richardson
The english, the plain english, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is — Samuel Richardson
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think marriage a sufficient amends. — Samuel Richardson