Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Thomas CarlyleNo person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Thomas CarlyleThese Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.
Thomas Carlyle