Excitement-Inexcitability

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, that he goes the farthest who goes far enough. (James Russell Lowell)

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. (Oscar Wilde)

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, and I am richer then than all my Fellow Men. (Emily Dickinson)