"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them" — Joseph Addison

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Source: Letter to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Joseph Addison Quote