If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas CarlyleNo person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Thomas CarlyleA sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
Thomas CarlyleIf an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle