Thomas Carlyle
  • What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

  • For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  • The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.