Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Samuel Richardson

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
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

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson

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

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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