It is from it he draws his poetry; it is there he finds his romance.
"And this is his great charm, as it is his chief distinction.

He invests virtue, however lowly, with the dignity that belongs to it.

He rewards merit, however obscure, with its due honour.

Whatever is true or beautiful or good, finds from him an immediate sympathy.

The true is never rejected by him because it is commonplace; nor the beautiful because it is everyday; nor the good because it is not also great.