Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardsonwas an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Ladyand The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 August 1689
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.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.
Tired of myself longing for what I have not
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.