No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
Thomas CarlyleNo mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas CarlyleWe have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas CarlyleNature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas Carlyle