Joseph Addison

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

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

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

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune

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

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing

No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas

The disease of jealousy is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment

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