Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder? — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
