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  • Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

    Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.260, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press