No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.


Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire (ed. 1881)


No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.