It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
Joseph AddisonWhen all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
Joseph AddisonThe transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
Joseph AddisonWhen a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
Joseph Addison