Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment. - Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Action
What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world. - Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/End
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eternity
I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. - Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport