Quote by Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

• 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.

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

• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

• 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.