Richard Steele

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

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

The married 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.

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.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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