Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph AddisonFables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
Joseph AddisonOne would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
Joseph AddisonThere is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Joseph Addison