Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.—­Tuckerman.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes.  Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.—­Lytton.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.—­Emerson.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader.  —­Arthur helps.

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms.  Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.—­Phillips brooks.

Envy.—­There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.—­Sheridan.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors.  Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue.  Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.—­Socrates.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.—­St. Chrysostom.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.—­Pliny.

Base envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 
—­Thomson.

The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure.  The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it.  All the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious.  Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure.  What a wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him!—­Steele.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.—­La ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.—­Colton.

Envy—­the rottenness of the bones.—­Proverbs 14:30.

There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows where it dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous and suspicious till they feel the wound.

Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.—­Saadi.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.—­Colton.