Quotes from Joseph Addison
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
- Joseph Addison
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
- Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
- Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison
The post of honour is a private station.
- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
- Joseph Addison
Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
- Joseph Addison
There is a great amity between designing and art.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
- Joseph Addison