Richard Steele
Irish-born English essayist, playwright and co-founder of The Tatler and The Spectator, 1672-1729
4 quotes.
Quotes by Richard Steele
- Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
- The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth.