Richard Steele

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

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

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

"It was very prettily said, that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom heaven is pleased to bestow it."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The insupportable labour of doing nothing."

"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."

"We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight."

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

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

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

"There are so few who can grow old with a good grace."

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

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

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

"If there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness."

"I think Steele shone rather than sparkled."

"Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at - only a friend to shake by the hand."