A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

More Quotes by Richard Steele

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.