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.—Molière.
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.