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.
Richard SteeleIt is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
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 SteeleSince our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
Richard Steele