No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas CarlyleA 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 CarlyleO 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 CarlyleThe cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle