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 Smile
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. -Joseph Addison Success
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. -Joseph Addison Change
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. -Joseph Addison Wisdom
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. -Joseph Addison Happiness
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. -Joseph Addison Legal
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. -Joseph Addison Health
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. -Joseph Addison Patience
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. -Joseph Addison Nature
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. -Joseph Addison Great
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. -Joseph Addison Nature
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. -Joseph Addison Age
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison Hope
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison Happiness
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. -Joseph Addison Friendship
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. -Joseph Addison Faith
