We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph AddisonMirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph AddisonAmong those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
Joseph AddisonThe soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?
Joseph Addison