If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – 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
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle
Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle