Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
Thomas CarlylePain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas CarlyleThe world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas CarlyleFor man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas CarlyleWhen we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle