We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. – Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. – Joseph Addison
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison