110 Quotes by Richard Steele

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

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

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

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest.