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

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

— Joseph Addison

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

— Joseph Addison

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

— Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

— Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

— Joseph Addison

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.

— Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

— Joseph Addison