The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
Joseph AddisonIf our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
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 AddisonIf gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.
Joseph Addison