The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas CarlyleThe courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleMan is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
Thomas CarlyleIt is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
Thomas CarlyleCease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
Thomas Carlyle