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• Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Horace, Ode iii, Book iii...
• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth
  While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole....
• Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. -- Joseph Addiso
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- The Campaign, Line 291...
• And those that paint them truest praise them most.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- The Campaign, Last line...
• Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 4