The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. — Enthusiasm

"However, tis expedient to be wary: Indifference certes dont produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety."

"Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine."

"Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing."

"It is always delightful to have ones feeling expressed by some one else in language of enthusiasm one might oneself be afraid to employ."

"ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi."

"Poverty is a great feeder of enthusiasm."