How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.
Richard SteeleAge in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard SteeleIt is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.
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