The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, wont in the end affirm or deny anything. – 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