Richard Steele
Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steelewas an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
marriage wedding heaven
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.
inspirational life motivational
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
laziness doing-nothing labor
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
enemy praise commendation
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
giving offensive praise
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
character men common
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
girl daughter mother
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.
friendship dresses matter
Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.
kindness men judging
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
pain failure reflection
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
men thinking years
A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.
men thinking good-man
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
grace age youth
There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
beauty beautiful incapable
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.