"It may indeed fill the Mind for a while with a giddy kind of Pleasure, but it is such a Pleasure as makes a Man restless and uneasy under it; and which does not so much satisfy the present Thirst, as it excites fresh Desires, and sets the Soul on new Enterprises."
Spectator, No. 256
See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), ii, 493-498.
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Reading in <u>Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays</u>, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).