Immersed into blissful dilettantism as in a warm bath, we are half awake, half dreaming.

The one is cool, thorough, cautious, methodical to the point of pedantry; the other is passionate, ingenious, unmethodical to the point of capricious dilettantism.

The party system destroys the sincerity of our political life, and introduces a dangerous dilettantism into the administration of public business.

It is pure dilettantism, again, to seek the moral of Irish commotions in the insurrection of La Vendée.