Sir Richard Steele Quotes
Most popular Sir Richard Steele Quotes
Silence is an excellent remedy against slander.
Wisdom without goodness is craft and treachery.
Mercy and alms are the body and soul of charity.
No ruins are so irreparable as those of reputation.
True honor is acquired by nothing but good conduct.
Beauty without merit and virtue is a bait for fools.
Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
The power of dress is very great in commanding respect.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents.
What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What the second? Tautology. What the third? Tautology.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their life.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
A modest man seldom fails to gain the good will of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who appears to be pleased with himself.
In a word, 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.
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.
