Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed. 87 Shallow men believe in luck.
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. We boil at different degrees. Works and Days.