One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas CarlyleThe man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas CarlyleNo conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas CarlyleWe were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle