Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.More Joseph Addison quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.More Joseph Addison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.More Joseph Addison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.More Joseph Addison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.More Joseph Addison quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]