241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.