Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
Thomas de QuinceyIt is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
Thomas de QuinceyWar has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Thomas de QuinceyThe whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
Thomas de Quincey