Quotations From SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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• 91.

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

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 78, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 92.

  There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 196, AMS Press (1990).
• 93.

  A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Sir Charles Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 3, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 94.

  Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 124, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 95.

  Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Sir Thomas Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, p. 170, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 96.

  It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 305, AMS Press (1990).
• 97.

  Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 20, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 98.

  Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 180, AMS Press (1990).
• 99.

  Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 208, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 100.

  The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 36, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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