A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. – Thomas Carlyle
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. – Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – 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