Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison
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
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison