For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel RichardsonThe 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 RichardsonShame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel RichardsonYouth 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