Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas CarlyleI too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.
Thomas CarlyleThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle