Joseph Addison Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

• Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

• I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Mistake, Believe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.59

• A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Men, Example

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.305

• A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index”

• As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Addiction

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