Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with ho… - Joseph Addison

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.