Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph AddisonFables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
Joseph AddisonTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
Joseph AddisonWe make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
Joseph AddisonIt is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
Joseph Addison