More From 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."
- "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."
- "O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!"
More In Patriotism
- "Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime."― George Borrow
- "Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."― Ambrose Bierce
- "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"― Blaise Pascal