Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — 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
