A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. – Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy
Life is a bed of water filling from many springs and we seem not to know when one gushing flow will oer flood the banks only to be succeeded by a drought. – Anon.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. – Nicolaus Copernicus