Thomas Carlyle Quote

Canopus shining-down over the desert, with its blue diamond brightness (that wild, blue, spirit-like brightness far brighter than we ever witness here), would pierce into the heart of the wild Ishmaelitish man, whom it was guiding through the solitary waste there.

On Heroes and Hero Worship, Lecture I (p. 13), John B. Alden, Publisher. 1887