Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.