He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.