241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

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.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

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

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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.

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

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

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