“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express."
- Joseph Addison
Love
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter."
- Joseph Addison
Love
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives, there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."
- Joseph Addison
Love
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
Compassion
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;"
- Joseph Addison
Happiness
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."
Contentment
"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."
Contentment