I never knew a finer, tenderer, more sensitive or modest soul among the sons of men. There never was a more generous creature than he, nor a more modest.
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Thomas Carlyle, response to Mill's death, quoted in Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, with Biographical Comment by His Daughter Sara Norton and M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Volume I (1913), pp. 495–496