The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously harass ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as possible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is. Goethe.
The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius. Longinus.
The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy. Victor Hugo.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. Jeremy Taylor.
The substance of a diligent man is precious. 10 Bible.
The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. Chaucer.
The substantial wealth of a man consists in the earth he cultivates with its plants and animals, and in the rightly produced works of his own hands. Ruskin.
The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and that of the ideas of the public. Chamfort.
The suffering man ought really "to consume his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Carlyle.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my 15 merit is not sufficient. St. Augustine.