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
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle