Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas CarlyleAlso, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas CarlyleThere is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas CarlyleThe insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
Thomas CarlyleThe great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
Thomas Carlyle