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. Samuel Richardson More Quotes by Samuel Richardson More Quotes From Samuel Richardson The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other? Samuel Richardson lasts judging opportunity Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind. Samuel Richardson blessing happiness years 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. Samuel Richardson next hypocrite want The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided. Samuel Richardson reading writing lying The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. Samuel Richardson bachelors modern-woman women All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man. Samuel Richardson maids women taken The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window. Samuel Richardson women eye heart Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. Samuel Richardson women pain children If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does. Samuel Richardson marriage wife husband To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. Samuel Richardson virtuous clergymen compassionate I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free. Samuel Richardson my-own knows heart Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty. Samuel Richardson true-beauty puff people Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. Samuel Richardson arrogant pride spiritual Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves. Samuel Richardson aging deserve age What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. Samuel Richardson curiosity wish want It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. Samuel Richardson accepting would-be may Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment. Samuel Richardson romance imagination fire By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her. Samuel Richardson soul sleep love Men are less forgiving than women. Samuel Richardson forgiveness forgiving men Good men must be affectionate men. Samuel Richardson affectionate good-man men