Quotes by Joseph Addison

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.