A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Thomas CarlyleMen seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleWe have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
Thomas Carlyle