Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

I launch eagerly into this resounding tumult.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.