The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
Thomas CarlyleGreat souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
Thomas CarlyleThe leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle