Grammar and the Milky Way

I never delighted much in contemplating commas and colons, or in spelling or measureing symbols; but now... if I attempt to look at these little objects, I find my imagination, in spite of all my exertions, roaming in the Milky Way, among the nebulae, those mighty orbs, and stupendous orbits of suns, planets, satellites, and comets which compose incomprehensible universe; and if I don't sink into nothing in my own estimation, I feel an irrestistible impulse to fall on my knees, in adoration of the power that moves, wisdom that directs, and the benevolence that santifies the whole. - John Adams