Joseph Addison Quotes
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
- Joseph Addison
We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
- Joseph Addison
We have in England a particular bashfulness in everything that regards religion.
- Joseph Addison
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
- Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
- Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise.
- Joseph Addison
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
- Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
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