Quotations From SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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• 61.

  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.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1742). Pamela, in Pamela, vol. 4, p. 370.
  
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• 62.

  Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Anna Howe, in Clarissa, vol. 8, p. 181, AMS Press (1990).
• 63.

  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.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 3, p. 288, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 64.

  Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 3, p. 168, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 65.

  All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 8, p. 198, AMS Press (1990).
• 66.

  Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1740). Mr. B., in Pamela, vol. 2, marriage rule number 21, Riverside (1971).
  
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• 67.

  The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Antony Harlowe, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 220, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 68.

  Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 281, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 69.

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

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 3, p. 162, AMS Press (1990).
• 70.

  Nothing dries sooner than tears.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 265, AMS Press (1990).