Quotes by Steele, Sir Richard

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. >>

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. >>

The insupportable labor of doing nothing. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for grante >>

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold i >>

The age of the book is almost gone. >>

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard