Joseph Addison Quotes

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

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

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

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

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

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

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 from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

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

True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

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

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

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

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.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

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

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