“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.”

— Richard Steele

“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.”

— 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

“The insupportable labour of doing nothing.”

— Richard Steele

“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.”

— 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