The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder? — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are… — 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… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards. — 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
