A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Age and Aging]

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Husbands]

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Gossip]

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Flattery]

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Praise]

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Dullness]

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Modesty]

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Praise]

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Books and Reading]

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Imitation]

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Age and Aging]

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Fools and Foolishness]

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Idleness]

The marriage 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.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Marriage]

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Women]

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Beauty]

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
~ Sir Richard Steele - [Service]