Samuel Richardson

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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

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

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.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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

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

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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

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

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

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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