We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
Joseph AddisonThe lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
Joseph AddisonTo a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph AddisonThere is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Joseph Addison