"We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to ..."
- Joseph Addison
"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."
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
"Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves."
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
"The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors."
"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities."
"... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, faction..."
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something wh..."