Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph AddisonLaughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph AddisonI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph AddisonCourage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison