Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions…

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or…

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to…

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great…

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise…

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink…

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments…

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills…

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress…

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty…

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes…

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature…

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down…

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is…

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of…