Samuel Richardson

“Habit, when confirmed, becomes a second nature.”

“The man who is not actively kind is cruel.”

“Great forgiveness is the noblest revenge.”

“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love and everything else.”

“Sorrowing is weakness, and despair is guilt.”

“A prudent woman will not sand the hour-glass of her life.”

“And is it not a fine thing to be praised by a man who is himself praised by everybody?”

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”

“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”

“To be good is to be happy; I would not be a villain for the world.”

“Pride and poverty are ill-met mates.”

“A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.”

“But what a man is, is more than what he has.”

“One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.”

“Life is a short-day's journey.”

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

“The pen has been looked upon, in all ages, as a sacred thing.”