Quotes by Joseph Addison

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of ones self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of ones self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of ones self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along lifes pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.

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

All of heaven we have below.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

And pleasd th Almightys orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.