Joseph Addison Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

There is no defence against criticism except obscurity.

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

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

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

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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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

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

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

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

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

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

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Encourage innocent amusement.

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