All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Thomas CarlyleIn every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Thomas CarlyleIf a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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