The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. – Samuel Richardson
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. – Samuel Richardson
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations’ love to the deceased. – 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
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. – Samuel Richardson
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. – Samuel Richardson
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – 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
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. – Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. – Samuel Richardson
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. – Samuel Richardson
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. – Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. – Samuel Richardson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. – Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. – Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. – 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
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
