Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph AddisonPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph AddisonTrue religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
Joseph AddisonWhen a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
Joseph AddisonOne should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph AddisonThose who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
Joseph Addison