The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
Joseph AddisonThose Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph AddisonIt is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Joseph AddisonThe voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
Joseph AddisonThose who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.
Joseph Addison