Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas CarlyleThe secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle