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• Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- The Campaign, Line 219...
• 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...
• For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Ode...
• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• 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....
• There is a way on high, conspicuous in the clear heavens, called the Milky Way, brilliant with its own brightness.
  By it the gods go to the dwelling of the great Thunderer and his royal abode ....
• 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)...
• The Lord descended from above And bow'd the heavens high
  And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky....
• Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...