Samuel Richardson Quotes

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.