Quotes from Samuel Richardson

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

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.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

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.

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