Joseph Addison on Heart

“When love once pleas admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost.”

“O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected.”