We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas CarlyleIf I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
Thomas CarlyleIt is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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