There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
James Russell Lowell
Wisdom
A quote by James Russell Lowell
From the source
Among my Books. First Series. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.