From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune.… — 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
