Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
Thomas CarlyleWith union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
Thomas CarlyleThe person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas CarlyleSocial Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science
Thomas Carlyle