"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body" — Joseph Addison

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone

Joseph Addison Quote