Si quis in coelum ascendisset,
naturamque mundi et pulchritudinem siderum perspexisset,
insuavem illam admirationem ei fore,
quae jucundissima fuisset
si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset.
Tho' a man were admitted to Heaven
to view the wonderful Fabrick of the World,
and the Beauty of the Stars,
yet what would otherwise be Rapture and Extasie,
would be but a Melancholie Amazement if he had not a Friend
to communicate it to’
(Cristiaan Huygens, da Cicerone, De Amicitia)