are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It
is the inspiration of everything great. Without it, no man is to be
feared, and with it none despised.--_Bovee._

Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity.--_Thoreau._

A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty
hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way
not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints,
invisibly helping.--_George Eliot._

The insufficient passions of a soul expanding to celestial
limits.--_Sydney Dobell._

~Envy.~--A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in
others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon
others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other.--_Lord
Bacon._

Pining and sickening at another's joy.--_Ovid._

Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising
in the esteem of mankind.--_Addison._

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those
below.--_Byron._

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.--_Shakespeare._

~Equality.~--Whether I be the grandest genius on earth in a single thing,
and that single thing earthy, or the poor peasant who, behind his plow,
whistles for want of thought, I strongly suspect it will be all one when
I pass to the Competitive Examination yonder! On the other side of the
grave a Raffael's occupation may be gone as well as a
plowman's.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate
to man, or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in
heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist
hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.--_Thomas
Paine._

By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are
brothers, and are equals.--_Mazzini._

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they
are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Liberty and equality, lovely and sacred words!--_Mazzini._

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute
fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or
dwarfs.--_Hazlitt._

~Equanimity.~--A thing often lost, but seldom found.--_Mrs. Balfour._

~Error.~--If those alone who "sowed the wind did reap the whirlwind," it
would be well. But the mischief is that the blindness of bigotry, the
madness of ambition, and