Comet/observation

Famous quotes containing the words comet and/or observation:

“By being seldom seen, I could not stir
But like a comet I was wondered at.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)