“He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.”
Bible
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
William Blake
“As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?”
Lord Byron
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu
