If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. – Thomas Carlyle
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus