If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
Thomas CarlyleWe are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.
Thomas CarlyleThere is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
Thomas Carlyle