I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.