Samuel Richardson Good Quotations

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Good men must be affectionate men.