241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

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

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

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

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.