The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison

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

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

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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

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

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison