There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than…

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754), Vol. 4, letter 17.

English (original)

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.

— Samuel Richardson

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

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

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

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!

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.