Joseph Addison

"Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn."

"Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by whi…"

"On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate."

"Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."

"It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in t…"

"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."

": A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured."

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor th…"