Sensitive Quotes - Page 8
John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 609, 1998.
Herman Melville (2012). “Bartleby and Benito Cereno”, p.18, Courier Corporation
Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.33
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
"Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 296), 1963.