Sublime

He was but a spark of the sun, in himself nothing.

“Father’s got the sack from the water–works For smoking of his old cherry–briar; Father’s got the sack from the water–works ‘Cos he might set the water–works on fire.”

Unitarian.

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

He had a great amount of intellectual capacity, of that peculiar kind which raises a man from throne to throne and lets him die loaded with honours without having either amused or enlightened the mind of a single man.

proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’

You think of a remote man merely as a man; that is, you think of him in the right way.

human enough to wander, human enough to wonder, but still sustained with that merry fatalism