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• 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...
• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• 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...
• 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....
• Addison, will you get serious!" "Serious? I just had my hand on your behind
  if I get any more serious, they'll move us to cable!" -- Addison and Maddy from "Moonlighting...
• Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. -- Joseph Addiso
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
  -- George Santayana...