Samuel Richardson

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

— Samuel Richardson

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

— Samuel Richardson

My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.

— Samuel Richardson

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

— Samuel Richardson

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

— Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

— Samuel Richardson

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

— Samuel Richardson

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

— Samuel Richardson

Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.

— Samuel Richardson

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

— Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

— Samuel Richardson

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

— Samuel Richardson

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

— Samuel Richardson

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

— Samuel Richardson

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

— Samuel Richardson

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?

— Samuel Richardson

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

— Samuel Richardson

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

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

— Samuel Richardson

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

— Samuel Richardson

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

— Samuel Richardson

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

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

— Samuel Richardson

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

— Samuel Richardson