Lighthouses

"LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician."

"[I]n standing out like a lighthouse over a stormy ocean it marks the entrance to a port where those who are wearied at times with the woes of the world, and troubled often by the trials of existence, may search for and may find that "peace that passeth all understanding"."

"The human heart is a meadow full of fireflies, a summer western sky of shimmering distant lightnings, a shore set round with flashing lighthouses, far-away voices calling that we cannot understand."

"Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse."

"And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,— That star of life's tremulous ocean."

"Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events."

"Lighthouses are more useful than churches."