Twelve Stars

Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or stars:

“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)