Addison, Joseph

A Letter from Italy


• Immortal glories in my mind revive,And in my soul a thousand passions strive,When Rome’s exalted bea...
• We envy not the warmer clime, that liesIn ten degrees of more indulgent skies,Nor at the coarseness ...
“Economy and Benevolence”


• With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
“Essay on Pride”


• The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
“Happiness Not Independent”


• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende...
“Happiness Not Independent” and Poetical Fragments


• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a...
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments


• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
Letter from Italy


• For wheresoe’er I turn my ravished eyes,Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,Poetic fields e...
Marcia, in Cato


• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
  To all the pangs and fury of despair.
• The woman that deliberates is lost.
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