The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. – Joseph Addison
A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game