We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely great, and we are always in the center of a great world. But we must accustom ourselves to live like an angel who has just sprung to life, like a woman who loves, or a man on the point of death. If you knew that you were going to die to-night, or merely that you would have to go away and never return, would you, looking upon men and things for the last time, see them in the same light that you have hitherto seen them? Would you not love as you never yet have loved?

The Treasure of the humble