“ If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Thomas Carlyle
“ To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. Thomas Carlyle
“ Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle
“ What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
“ Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle
“ 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 Carlyle
“ Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle
“ The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. Thomas Carlyle
“ Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
“ For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Thomas Carlyle
“ Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into t… Thomas Carlyle
