Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
Thomas de QuinceyNo progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
Thomas de QuinceyNobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas de QuinceyCows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey