It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
Richard SteeleThe 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.
Richard SteeleA modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
Richard Steele