Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.
Thomas CarlyleNarrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas CarlyleBy nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas CarlyleNature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas CarlyleA force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Thomas Carlyle