A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison. British writer and politician (1672–1719)
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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 the soul act with cheerfulness.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.