Sober Spaces

Famous quotes containing the words sober and/or spaces:

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)