A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.
Joseph AddisonIt is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph AddisonThe schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
Joseph AddisonNo man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
Joseph AddisonWith what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.
Joseph Addison