Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Joseph AddisonThe moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
Joseph AddisonWhether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
Joseph AddisonOur forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Joseph Addison