pontificalities

Updated: May 15, 2025

All cathedrals, pontificalities, brass and stone, and outer arrangement never so lasting, are brief in comparison to an unfathomable heart-song like this: one feels as if it might survive, still of importance to men, when these had all sunk into new irrecognizable combinations, and had ceased individually to be.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History