Joseph Addison Quotes

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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

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

The post of honour is a private station.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

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

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter.

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

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

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

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

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.