"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol" — Joseph Addison

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Lost time is never found again

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Source: Paracelsus (1835)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Joseph Addison Quote