Author of quotes: Joseph Addison

If many scientific knowledge did not manage to make a person smarter, then, quite naturally, they make him vain and arrogant.

Knowledge is what elevates one person to another in the most essential way.

People by their very nature subject to a thousand troubles, but, even if life is filled with misfortunes, we are constantly adding misery to misery, adding to the bitterness of ill-treatment of each other.

Words, unless they are well matched, have that power, what is described on paper often produces a more vivid impression than seen firsthand.

A true critic ought to dwell on the advantages and not the disadvantages...

The least noisy, the most modest friendship is often the most useful. So I always would prefer the reserved to the other excessively hard.

Books are the property devised by the mind of humanity, intended to pass from generation to generation, for the benefit of those that are born.

True happiness by nature loves solitude; it is the enemy of hustle and luxury, and is born mostly out of love for himself.

Man differs from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Confidence in what you love, soften the suffering of separation. The last "sorry" even loses its bitterness when it still hears the echo of love.

Calculating and indifferent cunning easier to convince a woman that he loves her, and succeed, than passionate lovers with his passionate expressions of feeling.

There is no light being more restless than out of fashion idol.

Not in the nature of the phenomenon is more diverse and multifaceted than the woman's headdress.

When the throne sits a good monarch, it's time to legislate against lawlessness of the authorities.