Many men have been laughed at... for gazing heavenward when their minds might have been occupied with affairs of earth. There will always be the mind that strives to reach to the skies, and the scoffer who regards all such aspirations as folly. Two men stood looking through the bars, One saw mud, the other saw the stars.
Discovery; or, The Spirit and Service of Science, Chapter I (pp. 21-22), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1918