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
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. – Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – 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