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 long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.
The thing you don't get looking at brochures and stats is what the school is really like,
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
The unhappy never want enemies.
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.