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• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths of which atheism would deny.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) "The Spectator, 239" (8 March 1711)...
• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Ode...
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
  The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and the good, or the great, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light....
• All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Annajanska
• Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...