If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Quote by Joseph Addison

Topics: Friendship Quotes

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or...

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius,...

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius,...

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are...

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are...

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and...

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and...

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love...

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love...

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there...

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there...

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it...

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it...

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me...

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure...

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you...

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you...