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

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

— Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

— Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

— Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

— Joseph Addison

Colors speak all languages.

— Joseph Addison

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

— Joseph Addison