Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
Joseph AddisonWhat I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph AddisonA source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.
Joseph AddisonIn England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.
Joseph Addison