I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
Joseph AddisonOne should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph AddisonContentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.
Joseph Addison