Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

That government is best which governs least.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.