There is no uniform of excellence, either in physical or spiritual nature: all genuine things are what they ought to be. The reindeer is good and beautiful, and so likewise is the elephant. In literature it is the same.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

“Jean Paul Friedrich Richter,” Edinburgh Review No. 91, Art. 7 (1827-06)
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A review of Heinrich Döring, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's Life, with a Sketch of His Works (1826).