Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
ATTRIBUTION:
George Sand (18041876), French novelist. Letter, May 25, 1866. Correspondence, vol. 4 (1883).
Real name Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant.