Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle