Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

— Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

— Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

— Joseph Addison

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

— Joseph Addison

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

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

— Joseph Addison

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison