The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas CarlyleOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleWell might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
Thomas CarlyleSo much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
Thomas Carlyle