Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

quote by Samuel Richardson
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!