Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. – Thomas Carlyle
Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle