Joseph Addison

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."

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

"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."