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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written that such and such a one was 'Breeches-Maker to his Majesty; and stood painted the Effigies of a Pair of Leather Breeches, and between the knees these memorable words, SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. Was not this the martyr prison-speech of a Tailor sighing indeed in bonds, yet sighing towards deliverance, and prophetically appealing to a better day?
If my speculations should ever see daylight, they may chance to get you into scrapes, but will certainly get me into worse.... But one must work; sic itur ad astra, and the astra are always there to befriend one, at least as asterisks, filling up the gaps which yawn in vain for words.
Deeply moved, she put it on her finger; but Andreas pointed to the motto, and said with failing utterance: "That is your road and mine my father's motto: Per aspera ad astra. It has guided me to my goal, and you all of you. But the words are in Latin; you understand them?
The present comprehensive use of the term is but an extension of the Middle-Age division of the liberal arts into the Trivium, Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectics, and the Quadrivium, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy, as expressed in the verse, "Lingus, tropus, ratio, numerus, tenor, angulus, astra." The term Magister Artium Liberalium, so often met with, refers to these.
Snip's unavailing attempts to adjust this mantle to the eminent politicians of the day, when, just as he had sunk down in despair, Britannia reappeared to him, and consoled him with the information that he had done all mortal man could do, and that she had only desired to convince pigmies that no human art could adjust to THEIR proportions the mantle of William Pitt. /Sic itur ad astra/, she went back to the stars, mantle and all!
He further stated "that the stars on the book plate were of Roman origin," and in support quoted from Virgil "Redire ad astra," meaning and inferring that a return to the stars meant a future home of peace and happiness for the human race, and that is what this nation would eventually become.
Picas de la Mirandola, who believed in astrology, says, "I have no doubt truly, 'Astra influunt, non cogunt." But would it have been a real proof of the truth of astrology, if Farsetti had been assassinated on a Friday? In my opinion, certainly not.
He was not as tall nor as heavily built as those Terran outlaw ancestors who had fled political enemies across the Galaxy to establish a foothold on Astra, and there were other subtle differences between his generation and the parent stock. Thin and wiry, his skin was brown from the gentle toasting of the summer sun, making the fairness of his closely cropped hair even more noticeable.
This end appears to be achieved with the Astra type of dirigible, the story of the development of which offers an interesting chapter in the annals of aeronautics. In all lighter-than-air machines the resistance to the air offered by the suspension ropes is considerable, and the reduction of this resistance has proved one of the most perplexing problems in the evolution of the dirigible.
There was the painted window, with its blazoned coats of arms and its proud mottoes "For Heart, Home, and Honour," and "Per ardua ad astra." He had won the heart and home, and he had kept his honour and his oath. He had endured the toils and dangers and the crown of stars was his. And yet, was Leonard altogether happy as he stood looking on these familiar things?
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