A widows refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. – Samuel Richardson
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. – Samuel Richardson
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. – Samuel Richardson
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. – Samuel Richardson
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. – Samuel Richardson
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. – Samuel Richardson
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. – Samuel Richardson
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. – Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. – Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! – Samuel Richardson
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. – Samuel Richardson
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. – Samuel Richardson
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. – Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. – Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. – Samuel Richardson
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. – Samuel Richardson
