Samuel Richardson
  • 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.

  • The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

  • There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

  • Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

  • Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.