Giant Size and Giant Strength are ugly qualities without beneficence. But the sun is the almoner of the Almighty, the delegated dispenser to us of light and warmth, as well as the centre of attraction; and as such the immediate source of all our comforts, and indeed of the very possibility of our existence on earth.

Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects, Lecture II (p. 62), George Routledge & Sons. 1871