241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

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

Men are less forgiving than women.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.