Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
Thomas CarlyleThe highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Thomas CarlyleAlso, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas CarlyleNo iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas CarlyleOnly perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
Thomas Carlyle