l, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of
the universe.--_Jules Janin._

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.--_Washington Irving._

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are
reached through the heart.--_Retif de la Bretonne._

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Z.

~Zeal.~--I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An
excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to
me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I
should call it.--_Montaigne._

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they
start.--_Schiller._

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The
winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.--_Charles
Buxton._

Tell zeal it lacks devotion.--_Sir W. Raleigh._

Nothing to build and all things to destroy.--_Dryden._

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true
zeal.--_Moliere._

People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and
violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest, that inflames
them.--_Montaigne._

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Zealot.~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, a
special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to
your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson._

What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason
upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring
if it be useful truth.--_Sydney Smith._

I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his
head or heart somewhere or other.--_Coleridge._

They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and
deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most
precious.--_Hawthorne._

* * * * *

The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day
end all.--_Shakespeare._

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