Joseph Addison Quotes about Humanity

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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Joseph Addison

Men, Doctors, Humanity

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.40

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Joseph Addison

Humanity, Pity, Incitement

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

Humanity, World, Bears

Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.322

Joseph Addison Quotes about Humanity

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