Richard Steele

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

— Richard Steele

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

— Richard Steele

I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.

— Richard Steele

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine.

— Richard Steele

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

— Richard Steele

The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

— Richard Steele

When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

— Richard Steele

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

— Richard Steele

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

— Richard Steele

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

— Richard Steele

Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

— Richard Steele

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

— Richard Steele

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…

— Richard Steele

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

— Richard Steele

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

— Richard Steele