Richard Steele Quote

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.


The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors and Explanatory Note. In Eight Volumes (ed. 1819)


A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment,...

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment,...

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment,...

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment,...