Richard SteeleThinkers

Affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Anger is very troublesome to others but most so to him that has it.

Equality is the life of conversation ; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society.

Laughter is the chorus of conversation.

Old age is an art — There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

The Painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, be is hardly below even tne poet in liberal art.

Pride is a destroyer of all symmetry and grace.

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

Show business is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied.