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
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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.
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
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.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
The thing you don't get looking at brochures and stats is what the school is really like,
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.