No age seemed the age of romance to itself. – Thomas Carlyle
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. – Thomas Carlyle
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. – Thomas Carlyle
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. – Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. – Thomas Carlyle
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith