Joseph Addison

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon read more

Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. read more

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.