People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. – Samuel Richardson
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. – Samuel Richardson
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. – Samuel Richardson
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. – Samuel Richardson
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. – Samuel Richardson
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. – 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
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. – Samuel Richardson