Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.”

“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.”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”

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

“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”

“The woman that deliberates is lost.”

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

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

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.”