Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.