Richard Steele Quotes

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.