What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. – Joseph Addison
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – 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
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert