A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

God doesn't promise us an easy life. But He does promise to love us and never leave us, no matter what happens.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.