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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

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

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Samuel Richardson

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Samuel Richardson

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Samuel Richardson

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Samuel Richardson

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Samuel Richardson

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Samuel Richardson

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Samuel Richardson

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Samuel Richardson

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Samuel Richardson

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Samuel Richardson

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Samuel Richardson

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Samuel Richardson

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Samuel Richardson

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Samuel Richardson

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Samuel Richardson

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Samuel Richardson

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Samuel Richardson

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Samuel Richardson