Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
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
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle