Quotes about Fevers

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But