Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. — Samuel Richardson
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. — Samuel Richardson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. — Samuel Richardson
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. — Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson
For the human mind is seldom at stay: if you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. — Samuel Richardson
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion — Samuel Richardson
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is — Samuel Richardson
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. — Samuel Richardson
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. — Samuel Richardson
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. — Samuel Richardson
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. — Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. — Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes — Samuel Richardson
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one — Samuel Richardson
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the — Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence — Samuel Richardson
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities — Samuel Richardson
Would alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for homer? — Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. — Samuel Richardson