A garland of quotations CVII

Is this my best book? Maybe

Man suffers, it is possible; but just look at Aldebaran rising!
•Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862).

I have never seen the evening Star set behind the mountains but it was as if I had lost a Hope our of my Soul—as if Love were gone, & a sad Memory only remained— / O it was my earliest Affection, the Evening Star / —One of my first utterances in verse was an address to it, as I was returning from the New River, and it looked newly bathed as well as I—I could remember that...