Joseph Addison

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Joseph Addison

Education

Rating: 7.44 (Number of Voters: 9)

"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."

Joseph Addison

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

Joseph Addison (last words)

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

Joseph Addison "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Trust

Various

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."

Joseph Addison

Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life. "

Joseph Addison

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)