“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”
Knowledge
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Joseph Addison
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
Patience“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
Hope“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”
Learning“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Great“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”
Happiness“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
Music“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
Friendship“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
Nature“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
Friendship“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”
Great“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
Age“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Happiness“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.”
Age“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.”
Age“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”
Nature“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”
Life“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
Nature“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
Wedding“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
Legal