When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
Thomas CarlyleLove not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Thomas CarlyleBy nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas CarlyleA heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
Thomas Carlyle