Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome. — 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
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with… — 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
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn… — 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
