The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel RichardsonThough a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.
Samuel RichardsonThe companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel RichardsonOld men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
Samuel RichardsonWomen's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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