Joseph Addison

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness…

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as…

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think…

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense…

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul…

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion…

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both…

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing…

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and…

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch…

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion…

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love…

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes…

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch…

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below…