If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Thomas CarlyleNo sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.
Thomas CarlyleThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle