Samuel Richardson Wish Quotations

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

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.