With 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 CarlyleIn private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Thomas CarlyleIf there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Thomas CarlyleStatistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
Thomas Carlyle