Benjamin Disraeli Quote

It was a melancholy day for human nature when that stupid Lord Anson, after beating about for three years, found himself again at Greenwich. The circumnavigation of our globe was accomplished, but the illimitable was annihilated and a fatal blow [dealt] to all imagination.

written 1860, in Reminiscences (ed. H. and M. Swartz, 1975) ch. 6