History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – 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