1. Joseph Addison - “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

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2. Joseph Addison - “There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.”

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3. Joseph Addison - “To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”

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4. Joseph Addison - “Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!”

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5. Joseph Addison - “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, But, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

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6. 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.”

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7. Joseph Addison - “Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”

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8. Joseph Addison - “We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”

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9. Joseph Addison - “Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.”

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10. Joseph Addison - “Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?”

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11. Joseph Addison - “There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

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12. Joseph Addison - “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.”

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13. Joseph Addison - “There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”

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14. Joseph Addison - “Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.”

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15. Joseph Addison - “Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.”

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16. Joseph Addison - “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

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17. Joseph Addison - “A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.”

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18. Joseph Addison - “To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.”

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19. Joseph Addison - “Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.”

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20. Joseph Addison - “Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.”

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21. Joseph Addison - “A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

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22. Joseph Addison - “I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

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23. Joseph Addison - “Books are the legacies of 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.”

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24. Joseph Addison - “A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. — Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. — Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.”

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25. Joseph Addison - “Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”

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