Inspiring Quotes by Samuel Richardson - Page 2

"A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates"

"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"

"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive"

"Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache"

"Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health"

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured"

"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse"

"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense"

"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it"

"Calamity is the test of integrity"

"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"

"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views"