True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)
How our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)