Here at Leyden he read in the great library, soon to be endowed with Scaliger's books, and saw the room of which Heinsius so nobly said: 'In the very bosom of Eternity among all these illustrious souls I take my seat'; and at Louvain he could only lament the death of Justus Lipsius, whom he regarded as 'the light and the loadstar of wisdom.
"The Great Book-Collectors"
Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton
Her mind returned to the loadstar.
"A Modern Chronicle, Volume 5"
Winston Churchill
One is the confidence with which he announces the yet unrecognized excellence of "this one new poet," whom he is not afraid to put side by side with "that good old poet," Chaucer, the "loadstar of our language."
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church