"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief" — Joseph Addison

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Joseph Addison Quote