In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.
Thomas CarlyleA person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Thomas CarlyleFor every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Thomas CarlyleHistory is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Thomas CarlyleBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
Thomas Carlyle