Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.
Thomas CarlyleFor man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas CarlyleWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
Thomas Carlyle