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Continue to ChatWhat a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. - Charles Lamb from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/what-a-dead-thing-is-a-clock-with-its-ponderous-embowelments-of-lead-and-brass-its-pert-or-solemn-dullness-of