The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

- Samuel Richardson

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

- Samuel Richardson

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

- Samuel Richardson

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

- Samuel Richardson

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

- Samuel Richardson

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

- Samuel Richardson

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

- Samuel Richardson

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

- 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