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 RichardsonThe plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel RichardsonIt may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Samuel RichardsonThe first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
Samuel RichardsonThe world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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