If there be no enemy theres no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. – Thomas Carlyle
Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle