Joseph Addison Good Quotations

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

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

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty

I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.