Joseph Addison
37 quotations
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
See in what peace a Christian can die.