The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas CarlyleThe grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
Thomas CarlyleTerror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
Thomas CarlyleThe weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
Thomas Carlyle