The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

"Above me shones the stars, for the night was very clear. I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling. All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore. Southward ( as I judged it) was a very bright red star that was new to me; it was even more splendid than our green Sirius. And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own toubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life."
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells