Quotes from Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
— Joseph Addison
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
— Joseph Addison
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
— Joseph Addison
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
— Joseph Addison
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
— Joseph Addison
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
— 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.
— Joseph Addison
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
— Joseph Addison
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
— Joseph Addison
Colors speak all languages.
— Joseph Addison