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.

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

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.