I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Don and that group were really responsible for that, ... They brought contacts and a youthful enthusiasm, and they went out there and got the deal. That's what we had in mind when we stepped aside.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.