Samuel Richardson

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.