The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather: “Thea had spent hours making trees out of “Thanatopsis,” Hamlet’s soliloquy, Cato on “Immortality.””
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: “Washington had his favorite play, Addison’s Cato, the story of a self-sacrificing Roman statesman, staged at Valley Forge to buck up his weary men.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “As he experienced the first stirrings of an abiding passion for theater, he read Joseph Addison’s Cato, a paean to republican virtues that he quoted repeatedly throughout his life.”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “I strongly suspect, and have written, that the line comes from Addison's play Cato, which was vastly popular with American audiences at the time of the Revolution.”
My Life by Richard Wagner: “I had drawn extensively from the monologue in Addison's Cato”