Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — 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
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — 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
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — 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
