Johnson...

I regretted that I had lost much of my disposition to admire, which people generally do as they advance in life. Johnson: "Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, --judgement, to estimate things at their true value." I still insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgement, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. Johnson: "No, Sir, admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgement and friendship like being enlivened."

-- James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson