The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.
Joseph AddisonGood Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph AddisonDevotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
Joseph AddisonThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph Addison