Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Thomas CarlyleThe beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
Thomas CarlyleA force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Thomas CarlyleThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle