The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
