Joseph Addison Quotes

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

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