“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
About Joseph Addison
1 May 1672–17 June 1719
Joseph Addison, born on 1 May 1672 at Milston in Wiltshire and dead on 17 June 1719 at Holland House in Kensington, was one of the central makers of modern English prose. Poet, critic, dramatist, journalist, civil servant, parliamentarian, and Whig public intellectual, he achieved an influence out of proportion to the…