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.
Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Joseph Addison
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
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Joseph Addison
