Richard Steele

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.