I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
Joseph AddisonOur Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
Joseph AddisonThy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cรฆsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph AddisonIt generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.
Joseph Addison