Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''
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.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.