--CICERO.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due
consideration.--RIVAROL.
ZEAL.--Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of
exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.--COLERIDGE.
Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more
disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.--BARROW.
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is
lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place
himself that knowledge may grow.--BUDDHA.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief,
while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.--SHENSTONE.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden
thread that ties their hearts together.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the
latter is divine.--HOSEA BALLOU.
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire,
true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.--WILLIAM PENN.
Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of
gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord
prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an
attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure
from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy
men's lives, but to save them."--BISHOP MANT.
Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either
petulancy, ambition, or pride.
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