Quotes from Samuel Richardson

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Men are less forgiving than women.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

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

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.