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
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.
Every thing is pretty that is young.