Joseph Addison Quotes

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...

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

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

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with the...

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

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

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

As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would...

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might ...

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the wo...

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from t...

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something whi...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, ca...

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something ...

All of heaven we have below.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us ...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattere...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obj...

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next fro...

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and d...

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know wh...

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which ...

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

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us ...

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

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place ...

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

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

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something...

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next fro...

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I sha...

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of d...

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on hi...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom h...

Colors speak all languages.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us ...

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursu...

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

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenit...

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.