Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

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

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.