Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm, that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time, the latter is cured by it.—Robert Hall.
Enthusiasm is that temper of mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.—Warburton.
Great designs 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.—Bovée.
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.