“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”
– Joseph Addison
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
– Joseph Addison
“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
– Joseph Addison
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
– Joseph Addison
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
– Joseph Addison
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”
– Joseph Addison
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
– Joseph Addison
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
– Joseph Addison
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”
– Joseph Addison
“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”
– Joseph Addison
“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
– Joseph Addison
“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
– Joseph Addison
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
– Joseph Addison
“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
– Joseph Addison
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
– Joseph Addison
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
– Joseph Addison
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
– Joseph Addison
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
– Joseph Addison
“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”
– Joseph Addison
“The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”
– Joseph Addison
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
– Joseph Addison
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
– Joseph Addison
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
– Joseph Addison
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”
– Joseph Addison