Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
Thomas CarlyleHe who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas CarlyleHow indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
Thomas CarlyleLove not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Thomas CarlyleA fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
Thomas Carlyle