Quotes by Joseph Addison

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

#Laughter

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the...

#Laughter

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

#Beauty

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to...

#Beauty, #Conversation, #Nature

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

#Advice

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

#Advice

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

#Knowledge

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

#Knowledge

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

#Courage

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

#Belief, #Bigotry

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow

#Nations

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

#Mankind