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

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

- Richard Steele

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

- Richard Steele

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

- Richard Steele

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

- Richard Steele