The Everlasting Stars

Ah me! These everlasting stars, do they not look down like glistening eyes, bright with immortal pity, over the lot of man!

—Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, epigraph to Chapter 1, quoting Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, Chapter 3.6.3, quoting Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book 2 Chapter 8.