Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius…

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary…

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is…

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical…

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance…

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the…

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything…

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which…

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious…

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together…