We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Mignon McLaughlin
Roger L'Estrange
John Wesley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Amiel
Aldous Huxley
George Santayana
Honoré de Balzac
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