Joseph Addison

The woman that deliberates is lost.

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.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.