Samuel Richardson

The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle.

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.

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

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 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.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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

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

Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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

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

My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.

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