Quotes from Samuel Richardson

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

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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

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

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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

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.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.