Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardsonwas an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Ladyand The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 August 1689
The unhappy never want enemies.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.