Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
