The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest
Richard SteeleThe man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
Richard SteeleI love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.
Richard SteeleAmong all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Richard Steele