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
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.