There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Samuel Richardson

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson

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

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Samuel Richardson

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson

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

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
Samuel Richardson

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Samuel Richardson

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson

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

We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson

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.
Samuel Richardson

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Samuel Richardson