Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
