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Lincoln affirmed that it was "the most arrant Quixotism that was ever enacted before a community."
It will be generally admitted that the man capable of self-denial of so truly heroic a nature as this, is no ordinary poetaster. "One would be puzzled to find a similar instance of perfect and absolute disinterestedness in the roll of minstrels, from Homer downwards; and, to tell the truth, there does seem a spice of Quixotism mingled with and tinging the pure fervour of the enthusiast.
This knight-errant proclivity ripened from the Quixotism of boyhood into the chivalrous devotion which had manifested itself in his somewhat romantic friendship for Maurice, a friendship productive of such happy results to the young viscount. Ronald replied, "My affection has gained a victory over my jealousy, as Maurice discovered some years ago.
He saw as with a rending shock how like the widow of John Charteris was to Anne Willoughby; and unforgotten pulses, very strange and irrational and dear, perplexed him sorely. He debated, and flung aside the cigarette as an out-moded detail of his hobbling part. "You say I did a noble thing for you. I tried to. But quixotism has its price. To-day I am not quite the man who did that thing.
Can you, for the sake of a girl of whom you have seen but little, or in the Quixotism of atonement for your father's fault, complete the ingratitude I have experienced from those who owed me most? I cannot think it. I rejoice that you wrote did not urge this suit in person. I should not have been able to control my passion; we might have parted foes. As it is, I restrain myself with difficulty!
Wingrove had learnt from the wretched Chicasaw that there were a hundred men with the Mormon train. It was idle, therefore, to think of carrying her off by force. That would have been sheer quixotism only to end fatally for all of us. And was it not equally idle to dream of an abduction by stealth? Verily, it seemed so. How were we to approach this Mormon host?
And the speculative or meditative Quixotism is, like the practical Quixotism, madness, a daughter-madness to the madness of the Cross. And therefore it is despised by the reason. At bottom, philosophy abhors Christianity, and well did the gentle Marcus Aurelius prove it. The tragedy of Christ, the divine tragedy, is the tragedy of the Cross.
For example, coming by the house of a country-gentleman, as Father Simon called him, about ten leagues off from the city of Nanquin, we had, first of all, the honour to ride with the master of the house about two miles; the state he rode in was a perfect Don Quixotism, being a mixture of pomp and poverty.
I shall never forget the refined and simple hospitality he showed to me that last day at Helstone. Only half mollified, and yet anxious, in order to lull certain qualms of his own conscience, to believe that Mr. Hale's conduct had a tinge of Quixotism in it, Mr. Bell growled out 'Aye! And you don't know Milton. Such a change from Helstone!
And indeed she had not a great deal of voice, and still less science, Nettie's life having been too entirely occupied to leave much room for such studies. Yet somehow her song touched the doctor's heart. He forgave her entirely that walk with the curate. He went in softly, less impatient than usual with her crazy Quixotism. A child a sick child especially was a bearable adjunct to the picture.
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