Quote

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Child
Follies
Happiness
Checked
Future
Laid
Children
Folly
Men
Generally
Misery
Ground
Early
Indulged

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Good men must be affectionate men.
Samuel Richardson
Image
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
Image
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Samuel Richardson
Image
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson