Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. – Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. – Thomas Carlyle
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. – Friedrich Engels