Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

It was like the old speculations--what would happen if an elephant could leap up in the sky like a grasshopper ?" "Our elephant," said Syme, looking upwards, "has leapt into the sky like a grasshopper." "And somehow," concluded Bull, "that's why I can't help liking old Sunday.

No, it's not an admiration of force, or any silly thing like that.

There is a kind of gaiety in the thing, as if he were bursting with some good news.

Haven't you sometimes felt it on a spring day?
You know Nature plays tricks, but somehow that day proves they are good-natured tricks.