Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Thomas CarlyleThe first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas CarlyleOnly perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
Thomas Carlyle