“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is...” — Joseph Addison Quote

“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.”

“Jesters do often prove prophets.”

“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”

“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”

“I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")”

“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”

“Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.”

“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.”

“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.”