Samuel Richardson
  • The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

  • If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

  • Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

  • Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

  • 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.