Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
Richard SteeleSuch is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
Richard SteeleIt is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do
Richard Steele