If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
Thomas CarlyleScience has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
Thomas CarlyleReform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas CarlyleNarrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle