O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
Thomas CarlyleWoe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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 CarlyleBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
Thomas Carlyle