Thomas Carlyle
  • The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  • Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

  • For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  • Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  • Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.