Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
Thomas CarlyleMan makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Thomas CarlyleThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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 CarlyleStatistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
Thomas Carlyle