Joseph Addison Quotes

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Encourage innocent amusement.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

There is nothing that strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have to hear below.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

There is no defence against criticism except obscurity.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The most skilful flattery is to let a person talk, and be a listener.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.