Words matter. These are the best Samuel Richardson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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.
A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
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.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
A husband’s mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
