“ As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. Samuel Richardson
“ From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. Samuel Richardson
“ Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Samuel Richardson
“ Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. Samuel Richardson
“ Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. Samuel Richardson
“ Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
“ Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Samuel Richardson
“ The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. Samuel Richardson
“ Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. Samuel Richardson
“ If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. Samuel Richardson
“ 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
“ Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. Samuel Richardson
“ There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. Samuel Richardson
“ O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Samuel Richardson
