Famous quotes containing the words steele and/or wrote:
“An Author, when he first appears in the World, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Although Samuel had a depraved imagination—perhaps even because of this—love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of the intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: “Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile.””
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)