IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"
John BurroughsWhen I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ยดthere is no godยด.
John Burroughs