Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas CarlyleConclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
Thomas CarlyleSuccess in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas CarlyleIn the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle