Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health. — 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
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — 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 Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. — 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 equal. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Image
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
