Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — 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
We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. — 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
