Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONMankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen 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 ADDISONI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON