A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
Richard Steele Quotes
The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it.
This Place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it; where you used to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satires, in the Hands of every Man you met, you have now only a Pack of Cards; and instead of the Cavils about the Turn of the Expression, the Elegance of the Style, and the like, […]
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.