Top 84 Quotes by Joseph Addison

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.