There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas CarlyleUniversal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Thomas CarlyleWe are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
Thomas CarlyleIs there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
Thomas CarlyleIf you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.
Thomas Carlyle