There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Source: Letter, 14 Feb --3 May 1819, to his brother and sister-in-law, George and Georgiana Keats.
-- John Keats, (Oct 31 1795-1821), English poet; He was one of the foremost Romantic poets whose poems included Ode on a Grecian Urn.