Samuel Richardson Quotes
Most popular Samuel Richardson Quotes
![Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity. - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/60/27560A-necessity-may-well-be-called-the-mother-invention-but-calamity-samuel-richardson.png)
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.
![Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/10/39110A-romances-in-general-are-calculated-rather-fire-imagination-than-inform-samuel-richardson.png)
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
![Oh! What a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the rich and the great for nothing else! - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/09/32009A-oh-what-a-godlike-power-is-that-doing-good-i-samuel-richardson.png)
Oh! What a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the rich and the great for nothing else!
![Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/13/32113A-humility-is-a-grace-that-shines-high-condition-but-cannot-samuel-richardson.png)
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
![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. - Samuel Richardson quote.](/img/q/00/17500A-friendship-is-the-perfection-of-love-superior-love-it-is-samuel-richardson.png)
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.