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
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Good men must be affectionate men.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Air and manners are more expressive than words.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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.