Thomas Carlyle
once wrote to a friend, "It is long years since I first saw the meaning of humility, and it came on me like water on one dying of thirst, and I felt it, and still feel it, to be the beginning of moral life.
In
her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers to modern Pharaohs who today, as in the time of Moses, hold men enslaved to the beliefs of material sense.