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.
Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments, Happiness Not Independent, 1794.
-- Joseph Addison, (May 1 1672-1719), English poet, essayist, playwright; He was a regular contributor to The Tatler (1709-11).