Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Joseph Addison (May 1 1672 – June 17 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is often remembered in tandem with that of his friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Admiration
@ Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Joseph Addison in Spectator No. 256 (24 December 1711).
Courage
@ I think the Romans call it Stoicism. [Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 4.]
Friendship
@ The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.
[Joseph Addison, in Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act III, scene 1.]