“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.