Sunday, August 31, 2014
Time Shall Show Us
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Little Dorrit, Book I, Chapter 15:
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Time shall show us. The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine—the travellers to all are on the great high road; but it has wonderful divergences, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.
