The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. Samuel Richardson More Quotes by Samuel Richardson More Quotes From Samuel Richardson 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. Samuel Richardson happiness men children From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. Samuel Richardson sixteen twenties humor The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. Samuel Richardson filled disagreeable mind It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. Samuel Richardson insincere There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. Samuel Richardson religious wise men There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. Samuel Richardson married matrimony giving-up Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion? Samuel Richardson violence epic honor It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. Samuel Richardson easier faults In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION. Samuel Richardson amusement stories littles An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. Samuel Richardson sanctify temptation littles Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house. Samuel Richardson women eye home A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. Samuel Richardson prudent design appearance The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Samuel Richardson tests reading firsts The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. Samuel Richardson republic letters littles The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. Samuel Richardson pleasure poor tears Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. Samuel Richardson short-love indifference and-love 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 pride self men The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. Samuel Richardson companion evening different Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. Samuel Richardson husband heart beauty The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. Samuel Richardson good-man passion men
