“ No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle
“ Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all. Thomas Carlyle
“ Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing ne… Thomas Carlyle
“ Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful. Thomas Carlyle
“ War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them… Thomas Carlyle
“ If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle
“ Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Thomas Carlyle
“ True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Thomas Carlyle
“ Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. Thomas Carlyle
“ When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle
“ Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. Thomas Carlyle
“ Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even i… Thomas Carlyle
“ Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. Thomas Carlyle