All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
Thomas CarlyleTo us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas CarlyleTime is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas CarlyleAll sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.
Thomas Carlyle