Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle
We didnt have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. – Jessica Hagedorn