Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard SteeleIt 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 SteeleSince we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
Richard Steele