Top 84 Quotes by Joseph Addison

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.