Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Joseph AddisonIf men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
Joseph AddisonOur disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
Joseph Addison