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
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
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.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!