Joseph AddisonThinkers

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Appetite is most violent in lust and hunger: lust is a perpetual call to propagate oneself, hunger to preserve oneself.

Beauty is that which makes its way more directly to the soul than anything else.

The Book is the legacy that a great genius leaves to mankind, which is delivered down from generation to generation as a present to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

A Critic is a true critic who dwells upon the excellencies rather than imperfections, and communicates to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Cunning is a sort of shortsightedness.

Education is to the human soul what sculpture is to a block of marble.

Friend is one who talking with is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Friendship is, in general, suddenly contracted... and therefore it is no wonder that it is easily dissolved.