Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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

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

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.