A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle
What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. – Thomas Carlyle
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc