The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. – Thomas Carlyle
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. – Pablo Picasso