Joseph Addison

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”

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

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”

“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”

“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.”

“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”

“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.”

“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”

“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.”