Commonplace Book

'If one has ever seen the best of anything, in love or life or art as well as in religion (for I believe the heavenly vision comes to us in innumerable ways), it is sin for us not to obey it. We need not be always thinking about it; but we must never be disobedient to it. Therefore, it seems to me that the few amongst us to whom it is granted to see the best in any walk of life have duties entailed upon us from which ordinary men and women are exempt.'

from Fuel of Fire by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Chapter VIII)