Joseph Addison Quotes

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.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.