All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.