I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.