To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph AddisonPeaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
Joseph AddisonPhysic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
Joseph AddisonSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonHudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.
Joseph Addison