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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
«A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.»
«Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.»
«The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.»
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
«When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!»
«Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue»
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
«The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.»
«The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures»
«Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false»

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