May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
Thomas CarlyleTo know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas CarlyleConsider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
Thomas Carlyle